Re: xl0: watchdog timeout

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:33:01PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Since upgrading to -CURRENT last night I have been getting a lot of
> watchdog timeouts on my xl0 device every time I put it under load:
> 
> citusc17# grep "watchdog timeout" messages | wc -l
>       44
> 
> Oct 10 02:30:48 citusc17 kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f mem 0xff000000-0xff00007f irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0
> Oct 10 02:30:48 citusc17 kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:4f:0e:26:15
> Oct 10 02:30:48 citusc17 kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
> Oct 10 02:30:48 citusc17 kernel: xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0
> Oct 10 02:30:48 citusc17 kernel: xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?

In case anyone else is interested, this is apparently caused by r1.69
of ip_dummynet.c (locking commit by sam): backing out this commit
fixes the problems.  I provided details of my configuration to sam
off-list and he is looking into it.

Kris