nve(4) timeout fix

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 28 21:04:18 UTC 2006


On Friday 28 April 2006 14:32, Marcus Frings wrote:
> * Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Also on the subject of nVidia NICs, I've fixed the device timeout
> > problem on nve(4). It appears that some revisions of the hardware don't
> > send interrupts on tx completion, which caused watchdog timeouts under
> > low load. We should take this hardware quirk into account for the nfe
> > port as well.
> 
> I also applied this patch to my FreeBSD 6.1RC (Asus A8N-E) for testing
> and it works perfectly. By now I don't have any timeouts anymore!
> 
> Will it be added to the official release of 6.1 or CURRENT?

It's in current but is probably too late for 6.1.

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