RE: Device bge watchdog timeouts

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug White [mailto:dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:45 PM
> To: Robin P. Blanchard
> Cc: current_at_freebsd.org; Bill Paul
> Subject: Re: Device bge watchdog timeouts
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
> 
> > We just repurposed a Dell 2550 from a 4.9-STABLE backup 
> server (very 
> > intensive network load) to a 5.2-CURRENT 
> shoutcast/realserver (minimal 
> > network load) and are seeing watchdog timeout errors constantly. We 
> > experience no such trouble in it's -STABLE incarnation (using the 
> > -STABLE bge driver). We have temporarily given up on the 
> bge driver in 
> > -CURRENT and are using the other 100base (fxp) onboard nic. 
> Has anyone 
> > got any suggestions on how to get this machine running 
> smoothly using 
> > its gig interface (with
> > -CURRENT) ? Thanks in advance.
> 
> This might be a wider problem with interrupt routing on your 
> system.  Post the output of 'boot -v' and try it with and 
> without acpi for kicks.

Good idea. Although I can't take this box down right now as it's happily
streaming our local NPR affiliate. Nevertheless, I like your suspicion:

# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq1: atkbd0                           2          0
irq4: sio0                            22          0
irq6: fdc0                             4          0
irq8: rtc                       18682170        127
irq13: npx0                            1          0
irq14: ata0                           92          0
irq16: fxp0                     12889411         88
irq20: pcm0                     25138308        172
irq30: ahc0                           15          0
irq31: aac0                        17985          0
irq0: clk                      145977654       1000
Total                          202705665       1388

# dmesg |fgrep bge
Preloaded elf module "/boot/modules/if_bge.ko" at 0xc07c01f4.
bge0: <Broadcom BCM5700 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x7102> mem
0xfeb00000-0xfeb0ffff irq 17 at device 8.0 on pci1
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:06:5b:05:33:99
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0

Should not device bge / irq 17 be in the vmstat output above ?