msk watchdog timeout

msk watchdog timeout

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From: "Kudo Chien"
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:39:47 +0800

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Hi,

Once again, I had the msk watchdog timeout problem under moderate load. I've
surveyed msk related posts before.
There are many reports and solutions, but they seems not help for me.

Whenever I try to get a FreeBSD iso file through ftp (transfer rate is about
3 MB/s), msk would be down. Some messages from dmesg are like:
msk0: watchdog timeout
msk0: link state changed to DOWN
msk0: link state changed to UP
mskc0: Tx descriptor error
mskc0: Tx descriptor error
msk0: watchdog timeout
msk0: link state changed to DOWN
msk0: link state changed to UP

I used FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE before, since there is some related patch for msk
at FreeBSD-Current (if_msk.c rev. 1.18). I upgrade to Current, but the
problem seems not solved. Certainly, I tried to add hw.msk.legacy_intr="1"
in /boot/loader.conf. Whether disabling MSI or not, the problem is as
before. In order to avoid shared interrupt, I've also disabled USB device in
BIOS, but not help.

Could you please tell me how to solve this problem.
Thanks a lot

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My host is Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 + Onboard Marvel 8056 Gigabit LAN
Controller (My MB is GA-965G-DS3 of Gigabyte,
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2417&ProductName=GA-965G-DS3
)

uname:
7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Thu Sep 27 00:11:01 CST 2007
root@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386

ifconfig:
msk0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500
options=9a
ether 00:16:e6:de:bf:ed
inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast x.x.x.x
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX )
status: active

boot message:
msk0: on
mskc0
msk0: Ethernet address: 00:16:e6:de:bf:ed
miibus0: on msk0
e1000phy0: PHY 0 on miibus0
e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX,
auto
mskc0: [ITHREAD]

vmstat -i:
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0 6 0
irq6: fdc0 1 0
irq14: ata0 97074 0
irq15: ata1 629 0
irq16: mskc0 288008 1
irq19: atapci0+ 1522 0
cpu0: timer 421587304 1922
cpu1: timer 421586922 1922
Total 843561466 3846


pciconf -lv:
mskc0@pci3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x436411ab rev=0x14
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
class = network
subclass = ethernet

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Best Regards,
Kudo