reproducible watchdog timeout in bge

[Wishmaster]

Hello Jeff,

Monday, January 22, 2007, 4:39:28 PM, you wrote:


JR> I have been unable to produce time outs with my current setup in 
JR> 6.2-Release.

JR> bge0 at pci3:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x81491043 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x11
JR> hdr=0x00
JR>      vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
JR>      device   = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
JR>      class    = network
JR>      subclass = ethernet

JR> Reading the PR, I attempted triggering this through CVSing and through
JR> the above mentioned ping tests.

JR> So far nothing.

JR> The only issue I have seen using these NICs in 6.2R is if I nail up the
JR> NIC at 100baseTX full-duplex I sometimes loose connectivity.  Nothing
JR> in the logs indicate watchdog timeouts or any other issue.   I simply
JR> brought the NIC back down to auto-neg and all seems fine.   I am 
JR> assuming this is a incompatibility between the BGE and my switch, RS8000.

JR> I have a Asus P5MT-S with dual BGE NIC's

JR> Cheers,

JR> Jeff
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pciconf says:
bge0 at pci3:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x81491043 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x21 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet
bge1 at pci4:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x81491043 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x21 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

So, if you have no troubles can you tell do you have smp kernel with
apic and what distribution you are using?

On my configuration I have dual core intel xeon 30xx series  with
SMP and APIC kernel (i386 distribution). This issue appears just after system boots up.

If you have non-smp kernel can you try to recompile it with smp and
apic support?

p.s. motherboard asus p5m2/2gbl

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