Re: xl0: watchdog timeout

Matt Smith wrote:
> Jimmy Selgen wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:29, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:22:49PM +0100, Jimmy Selgen wrote:
>>> I saw this with some of sam's locking changes that (temporarily) broke
>>> DUMMYNET.  I see you're using ipfilter - it's possible that this
>>> configuration has not been well-tested.  Are you passing much traffic
>>> through ipfilter on this box?
>>
>>
>> The box in question is my workstation, so I guess i'm not passing that
>> much traffic through ipfilter. Also, when I said that the NIC still
>> worked, I might have mislead you a bit. I had about 5-10 timeouts while
>> scp'ing the dmesg output to my other workstation.
>> Data seems to move from userland to the kernel, then get stuck in
>> buffers there for 10-15 seconds, "generating" timeouts, before they're
>> shipped off. I assume this is expected behaviour when a NIC isnt
>> behaving correctly.
>>
>>
>>> It would be helpful if you can do a binary search to narrow down when
>>> the problem started.
>>
>>
>> What would you have me search ? I'm a faily seasoned C programmer (12
>> years experience, some of them doing RTOS kernel work), but dont know
>> much about FreeBSD kernel development, or the process of checking out
>> different kernel revisions.
>>
>>
>> I've tried a build without IPFILTER, and the problem still exists.
>> I've also tried booting with ACPI disabled, and the problem is still
>> there.
>>
>> I have attached a copy of my kernel config file, in case i'm doing
>> something wrong.
>>
> 
> <snip kernel file>
> 
> I have just noticed that my xl0 card is misbehaving as well. I have a 
> 3c905c in my desktop and noticed that an ftp of a file from another 
> machine on the lan (100 meg switched) was only going at around 70KB/sec. 
> Normally I get around 9MB/sec.
> 
> A netstat -bi xl0 shows lots of errors:
> 
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs     Ibytes 
>  Opkts Oerrs     Obytes  Coll
> xl0    1500 <Link#1>      00:04:76:8d:c5:fd  3081878 217616 3778632119 
> 2451968     6  368229701     0
> 
> I also have this in my messages file:
> 
> xl0: transmission error: 90
> xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 180 bytes
> xl0: transmission error: 90
> xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 240 bytes
> xl0: transmission error: 90
> xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 300 bytes
> xl0: transmission error: 90
> xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 360 bytes
> xl0: transmission error: 90
> xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 420 bytes
> 
> I do not currently have any debugging options compiled into this kernel.
> 
> FreeBSD fraggle.xtaz.co.uk 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Tue Nov 
> 18 20:05:52 GMT 2003 
> root_at_fraggle.xtaz.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRAGGLE  i386
> 
> I am actually in the process of building a new world/kernel to update it 
> again as I thought it might be something that's fixed. I unfortunatly 
> can not boot the old kernel to see if it works fine in that because of 
> the statfs changes so it *could* possibly be the NIC has gone funny.
> 
> I also have a 3c905a and a 3c905b in my router machine and this is 
> showing no issues at all with the same dated kernel.
> 
> Matt.
> 

I am now running a 5.2-BETA kernel from today and still have the problem 
with my xl0 card here. I can only get a max throughput of around 
110KB/sec through it. And I am getting huge amounts of errors in the 
interface stats (5 minutes after booting):

Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs     Ibytes 
  Opkts Oerrs     Obytes  Coll
xl0    1500 <Link#1>      00:04:76:8d:c5:fd   217042  1290   57669634 
309460     0  208178476     0

So the question is, is this my network card has died and I need to throw 
it out or is it related to Jimmy Selgen's email about the watchdog timeouts?

It's a shame I can't boot an old kernel to test really.

Matt.