Re: kern/38229: Realtek 8139C+ problems with more than 2 NICs

[Frank Luedke <frank%landitec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38229; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Frank Luedke <frank%landitec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/38229: Realtek 8139C+ problems with more than 2 NICs
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:58:59 +0100

 Here the requested outputs.
 
 
 1. With BIOS set to PCI/PNP auto (ESCD)
 
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 # vmstat -i
 interrupt                                     total     rate
 cpu0 softclock                                68909      100
 cpu0 softnet                                   1284        1
 pic0 pin 5                                     1495        2
 pic0 pin 15                                    1100        1
 pic0 pin 0                                    68904      100
 Total                                        141692      206
 
 # dmesg | grep -i irq
 re0: interrupting at irq 5
 re1: interrupting at irq 12
 re2: interrupting at irq 10
 re3: interrupting at irq 11
 viaide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
 viaide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
 ====================
 
 2. With ESCD disabled, IRQ 10 and 11 blocked.
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 # vmstat -i
 interrupt                                     total     rate
 cpu0 softclock                                 3560      114
 cpu0 softnet                                    131        4
 pic0 pin 9                                      174        5
 pic0 pin 15                                    1027       33
 pic0 pin 0                                     3556      114
 Total                                          8448      272
 
 # dmesg | grep -i irq
 re0: interrupting at irq 9
 re1: interrupting at irq 3
 re2: interrupting at irq 5
 re3: interrupting at irq 12
 viaide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
 viaide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
 ====================
 
    Results are the same. re3 reports "watchdog timeout", no
   data could be sent.
 
    This Hardware is working without problems when BIOS set to
   ESCD when using Linux (RHEL 4), FreeBSD (m0n0wall) or WinXP.
   So this must be a NetBSD issue.
 
 .fl