Re: kern/44573: rtk and iwi start failing during high traffic on rtk

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/44573; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/44573: rtk and iwi start failing during high traffic on rtk
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:19:13 +0000

 On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40:01PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
  >     Whenever there is a high volume of traffic on rtk0, incoming or
  >     outgoing, both interfaces start failing to transmit and timing
  >     out.  iwi0 loses its configuration -- the driver resets the
  >     device and reloads the firmware (which usually fails at first),
  >     and then wpa_supplicant reassociates with the network and
  >     dhcpcd reconfigures the interface.  rtk0's configuration is
  >     preserved.  The number of oerrs on each interface increases.
 
 Is that a multiprocessor/multicore machine? If so, does the problem go
 away if you disable all but one cpu?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost