Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:54:19 -0300 From: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> Cc: shih@math.jussieu.fr, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: watchdog network card Message-ID: <200704100954.20900.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20070410042415.GA50510@duncan.reilly.home> References: <20060327093011.GA21070@math.jussieu.fr> <200603280747.55047.joao@matik.com.br> <20070410042415.GA50510@duncan.reilly.home>
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On Tuesday 10 April 2007 01:24, Andrew Reilly wrote: > Wow. Somehow we've slipped through a one-year timewarp: > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:47:54AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:40, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > After the last rebuild on my amd64-x2 box, both the nve ethernet > > > on the motherboard and the dc ethernet that I had been using to > > > work around other problems in the nve driver stopped working in > > > this way. DEVICE_POLLING and ifconfig...polling has got me > > > going again. I thoroughly recommend it. > > > > nve does not run polling mode but dc does > > > > I guess you have an IRQ conflict, nve and dc on the same hw interrupt,= =20 > > and that setting dc in polling mode worked around this problem then > > > > you could check vmstat -i with and without polling enabled to see it > > Thanks for the tip. I haven't been running dc or nve for about > a year, now :-) Nfe has been working beautifully for me, > without polling. I guess that I should have a look to see if > nve has improved in the interim, but it's difficult to make > oneself mess with something that isn't broken... > nfe appears to work much better (also with polling) and flawless. I tried o= ne=20 and another time nve but nfe is what works, at least on amd64 and newer=20 hardware so probably you don't need to waste your time ;) =2D-=20 Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br
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