82574L hangs (with r233708 e1000 driver).

[Jason Wolfe]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Barney Cordoba
<barney_cordoba at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- On Thu, 8/9/12, Jason Wolfe <nitroboost at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ever since r235553 the 82574L has been stable for me,
>> collectively
>> passing ~1.2Tb/s for the past 4 months without issue.
>> We did have
>> some issues with switches not liking the fallout of what
>> r236162 fixed
>> that we updated to, but the cards themselves were
>> fine.  If you pull
>> the current e1000 from 8-STABLE you'll get up to r236162.
>>
>> Jason
>
> Do you get occasional watchdog reset messages? I'm trying to see if
> the buffer jumping problem has been fixed or if they just put a condition
> watch in to keep it from remaining hung.
>
> Is Jack confident that something substantive has been corrected? If so,
> what was the culprit? I have to patch it into a 7.x driver.
>
> Barney

Barney,

I've not seen any watchdog errors, and they have been performing
pretty flawlessly even with the NIC pegged.  I believe r235553 was the
revision that fixed most of the issues on my end.

Jason