8.1-RELEASE em watchdog timeout broken?

[Charles Logan]

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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> The watchdog is working in all the internal testing that we've done, if
> there's
> some corner case here then I need more info to reproduce it. I'm confused
> about what's what, which machine is your desktop and what is the 'other'
> system?
>
> For instance, we had a loud complaint about the watchdog here a while back,
> and it turned out the user had increased the system HZ value to something
> really high...  I've yet to see something that indicates the code is broken.
>
> If it involves Windows then it goes outside the parameters of my testing so
> who knows :)
>
> Jack
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Scott Johnson <scottj75074 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Under 8.0-RELEASE I would get warnings from em(4) in /var/log/messages
>> about
>>
>> "watchdog timeouts" on em0 whenever my desktop PC connected to em0 was
>> powered
>> off. This was fine, except for the annoying warnings.
>>
>> Under 8.1-RELEASE I no longer get the warnings, and any time my desktop is
>> powered off, when I turn it back on, it has no connectivity. The interface
>> is
>> dead until I log into the console and run:
>> # ifconfig em0 down up
>>
>> The em(4) driver has changed a lot since 8.0-RELEASE. It seems this
>> watchdog
>> timeout is no longer working.
>>
>> The board is a Supermicro X7SPA-H with Intel 82574L GbE.
>>
>> Any ideas for debugging?
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