kern/123347: [bge] bge1: watchdog timeout -- linkstate changed to DOWN

[Brandon Peskin]

The following reply was made to PR kern/123347; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brandon Peskin <brandon at peskin.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,
 adam at mhm.lv
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/123347: [bge] bge1: watchdog timeout -- linkstate changed to DOWN
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:42:59 -0700

 I'm seeing this on 7.0-RELEASE too (p7)
 
 [bpeskin at centipede ~]$ uname -a
 FreeBSD centipede.xxxx.xxx 7.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0:  
 Sun Dec 21 08:31:52 UTC 2008     root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/ 
 usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 
 [bpeskin at centipede ~]$ pciconf -lv | grep -A 3 bge
 bge0 at pci0:2:1:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x02a61014 chip=0x164814e4  
 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
      vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
      device     = 'BCM5704 NetXtreme Dual Gigabit Adapter'
      class      = network
 --
 bge1 at pci0:2:1:1:        class=0x020000 card=0x02a61014 chip=0x164814e4  
 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
      vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
      device     = 'BCM5704 NetXtreme Dual Gigabit Adapter'
      class      = network
 
 
 Sep 21 01:15:34 centipede kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
 Sep 21 01:15:34 centipede kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
 Sep 21 01:15:34 centipede kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
 Sep 21 01:18:07 centipede kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
 Sep 21 01:18:07 centipede kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
 Sep 21 01:18:07 centipede kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
 Sep 21 01:20:24 centipede kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
 Sep 21 01:20:24 centipede kernel: bge0: link state changed to DOWN
 Sep 21 01:20:24 centipede kernel: bge0: link state changed to UP
 
 
 Of interest:
 
 It *only* happens when there's a sustained transfer of anywhere from  
 about 600Kbps - 900Kbps on the NIC. I can throw several Mbps at it  
 with no issue...but when there's that low(er) speed transfer it falls  
 over.