Re: nve0: device timeout (1)



From: Bachilo Dmitry <root@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:56:30 +0700
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@xxxxxxxxxxx

I've recently upgraded one of my home PCs from Intel Celeron to AMD Athlon. I
used to have Marvel Gigabit network (sk), and now I have nVidia nForce 3
network - nve (witch man says: "First appeared in FreeBSD 5.5", so it has
not appeared yet? :-)

The problem is that if this interface is online and I run something that uses
network (for example XChat, or even Quake 4, witch is always accessing
127.0.0.1 for ID Server), then like every minute (interval is not always the
same) the computer hangs absolutely (even mouse is not moving) for like two
seconds and then "Jan 2 09:41:12 gamer kernel: nve0: device timeout (1)"
falls on tty0.

And dmesg says:
Jan 2 09:39:13 gamer kernel: nve0: device timeout (1)
Jan 2 09:39:13 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 2 09:39:14 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to UP
Jan 2 09:39:44 gamer kernel: nve0: device timeout (1)
Jan 2 09:39:44 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 2 09:39:46 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to UP
Jan 2 09:40:16 gamer kernel: nve0: device timeout (1)
Jan 2 09:40:16 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 2 09:40:17 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to UP
Jan 2 09:40:48 gamer kernel: nve0: device timeout (1)
Jan 2 09:40:48 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 2 09:40:49 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to UP
Jan 2 09:41:12 gamer kernel: nve0: device timeout (1)
Jan 2 09:41:12 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 2 09:41:13 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to UP
Jan 2 09:41:22 gamer kernel: nve0: device timeout (1)
Jan 2 09:41:22 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 2 09:41:23 gamer kernel: nve0: link state changed to UP

and so on.

This, you know, spoils all the mood from upgrade. Do I do something wrong or
is that driver or is that the device?

First I thought that it was overclocking problem, but no, I've set
everything to default and the problem stays.
I use this PC for games, no secure data or anything else is there, so if it
would be necessary, I could provide ssh shell to it.

No need. This has been a popular thread for the past few days, but some
information might be useful.

Is the system an Athlon-64? Is it running amd64 or i386? SMP? Which
scheduler are you running?

Some systems seem to run fine with the driver in 6.1-Beta. Others show
the timeouts. Sometimes they recover. Other times they don't. I have
four identical systems. Two never have the problem. One has it a lot and
sometimes totally locks up; other times just logs the timeouts.

Turning off the watchdog timer in the source may work around the
problem. It's probably not a real fix, but, if it works...
*** if_nve.c 25 Dec 2005 21:57:03 -0000 1.7.2.8
--- if_nve.c 5 Jan 2006 00:12:45 -0000
***************
*** 943,949 ****
return;
}
/* Set watchdog timer. */
! ifp->if_timer = 8;

/* Copy packet to BPF tap */
BPF_MTAP(ifp, m0);
--- 943,949 ----
return;
}
/* Set watchdog timer. */
! ifp->if_timer = 0;

/* Copy packet to BPF tap */
BPF_MTAP(ifp, m0);
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@xxxxxx Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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