DragonFlyBSD

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Jost Tobias Springenberg
<jspringe@uos.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
> after playing around with dragonfly for quite some weeks I decided
> it is time to set uo a production environment and I remembered an old IBM eServer 325
> that I could use for this purpose.
> Installing and compiling a SMP kernel worked flawlessly however there is one major bug:
> The machine has two bge cards bge0 and bge1 the latter works fine but the first

Mmm, are two bge same?
Have you tried polling?
try setting hw.bge0.tx_coal_ticks to 400 without polling enabled.
Default value _may_ be too big for certain bge chips.

Best Regards,
sephe

Little bit of a delay here ...
I will try your suggestions and reply back mid next week.

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:15:39 +0800
"Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@gmail.com> wrote:

hand over to myself

I recently installed 2.2.1 on a Dell Precision 490. It has one bge0 nic. It
works fine with the GENERIC UP kernel. When I rebooted into an SMP kernel that
I built, though, I started getting the watchdog timeout errors. I found this
report and set hw.bge0.tx_coal_ticks to 400 in sysctl.conf, but that didn't
change anything.

Anything else I can test? The NIC in question:

bge0@pci11:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01c11028 chip=0x160014e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM5752 NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
class = network
subclass = ethernet

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Adam Kirchhoff (via DragonFly issue
tracker)<bugs@crater.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
>
> Adam Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> added the comment:
>
> I recently installed 2.2.1 on a Dell Precision 490. It has one bge0 nic.  It
> works fine with the GENERIC UP kernel.  When I rebooted into an SMP kernel that
> I built, though, I started getting the watchdog timeout errors.  I found this
> report and set hw.bge0.tx_coal_ticks to 400 in sysctl.conf, but that didn't
> change anything.
>
> Anything else I can test?  The NIC in question:
>
> bge0@pci11:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01c11028 chip=0x160014e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>    device   = 'BCM5752 NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
>    class    = network
>    subclass = ethernet

Did you have APIC_IO in your kernel configure?
If "yes", then try removing APIC_IO and try again.

Best Regards,
sephe

Yes, rebuilding the SMP kernel without APIC_IO seems to have done it. Thanks.

Adam