Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

In response to Bill Moran <wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

In response to Jason Thomson <jason.thomson@xxxxxxxxxx>:

Scott Long wrote:
> Conrad Burger wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> It looks like there is a "new" version of the bce driver in HEAD.
>> When will it be incorporated into Releng_6?
>
>
> It will be merged when someone, preferably 2-3 people, tell me that
> the changes in HEAD work for them. So far, no one has.
>
> Scott
> _______________________________________________

Using the driver from HEAD* in the latest RELENG_6 didn't fix our
problems.

We could still trigger the Watchdog timeout when copying a local file to
an NFS mounted filesystem (UDP mount, GigE speeds).

Same here, although it seemed to require a lot more effort to produce the
problem.

I see there have been additional updates to the driver in the past 10
hours. I'll grab those and try again to see if they help any.

No dice. I grabbed the latest if_bce.c from cvs HEAD, made the tweaks
(provided by Jason) and rebuilt the kernel.

I was able to trigger the watchdog timeout in less than 5 minutes. I did
not get a kernel panic, and kernel was built with INVARIANTS and
INVARIANT_SUPPORT.

Any other tests/experiments it would be worthwhile for me to run?

--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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