Re: [PATCH] nve(4) locking cleanup

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:35:51 -0500
On Thursday 17 November 2005 08:33 am, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, alan bryan wrote:
> >> Is this supposed to solve the "device timeout (64)"
> >> messages?
> >
> > No.
>
> I've seen some DragonFly commit logs
> (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/netif/nv/if_nv.c) which
> talk about fixing problems in the nve code regarding those timeout issues
> (but there seem to be problems in the nvidia provided object code, see
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-11/msg00027.html).
> Maybe someone with such a card is interested to have a look at them.

Hmm, there are a couple of changes such as calling pfnInit() in attach() and  
calling pfnClearTXDesc() in nve_stop() that might be interesting.  I've stuck 
those in my work tree and have made a seperate patch relative to HEAD if 
folks want to try them out:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/nve_dffixes.patch

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