Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

It seems Matt Smith wrote:
> With a current build from november the 9th I am still getting exactly 
> the same NFS lockups. I assume soren is as well. NFS has basically been 
> pretty unusable now for over a month.

Yes I do, NFS is virtually useless...

> As only a couple of people have complained about this from what I can 
> see I assume it is something related to something specific such as a 
> network card?

Could be, but its more than one type of card which suggests to me
its more "generic" in origin..

>  From my testing I only get this lockup when writing to the server. 
> Reading from the server works perfectly all the time. So luckily I can 
> still manage an NFS mounted installworld/kernel.

I can also lock it up with just reading, but it takes longer.

> Obviously we should really try and find the cause of this before 5.2. I 
> am willing to try any patches/debug on my systems. But I just have zero 
> clue about what to look for myself.

I think its a definite showstopper for 5.2 actually..

> NFS SERVER:
> xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x1000-0x107f mem 
> 0xfc304800-0xfc30487f irq 10 at device 7.0 on pci5
> xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:76:8d:c5:fd
> miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
> xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus0
> xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

OK the worst server I've got has:
re0: <RealTek 8139C+ 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xe4000000-0xe40000ff 
irq 12 at device 9.0 on pci0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
re1: <RealTek 8139C+ 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xe4001000-0xe40010ff 
irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0
rlphy1: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus1
rlphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
re2: <RealTek 8139C+ 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xe4002000-0xe40020ff 
irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0
rlphy2: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus2
rlphy2:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

The clients use fxp/xl/sis cards and can all make this server hang in seconds..

-Søren