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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:51:57 -0600 From: "John P Poet" <jppoet@...il.com> To: "Francois Romieu" <romieu@...zoreil.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8111C transmit timed out On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:28 PM, John P Poet <jppoet@...il.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> wrote: >> John P Poet <jppoet@...il.com> : >> [...] >>> That does not make any difference. >>> >>> I will say, that the problem seems to be reduced by this patch (or the >>> 0002-r8169-avoid-thrashing-PCI-conf-space-above-RTL_GIGA.patch). >>> >>> Before, I was getting failures two or three times an hour. With >>> either of these patches applied, the failure rate has dropped to one >>> every two to four hours. >> >> I have updated the kit at http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc2 >> >> Can you give it a try ? > > At first I *just* applied 20080807-r8169-test.patch, but the NIC did > not initialize during boot. So, I also applied > 0002-r8169-avoid-thrashing-PCI-conf-space-above-RTL_GIGA.patch. After > that, it booted okay. > > However, in general use it is much worse. May just be bad luck (or > something in the 2.26.2 kernel?), but the timeout message are rampant: > > Aug 7 21:14:58 saphire kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > Aug 7 21:14:58 saphire kernel: r8169: eth0: link up Hmmm. Not just "much worse", but much, much, much, much, much worse! I am getting several timeouts every minute. John -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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