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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:18:27 +0200 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@...hat.com> Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, dgilmore@...hat.com Subject: Re: r8169 transmit queue time outs Le mercredi 19 mai 2010 à 09:43 -0400, Kyle McMartin a écrit : > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:10:24PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > > Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@...hat.com> : > > [...] > > > Some of our users have been seeing their r8169 cards just up and stop > > > transmitting packets pretty quickly after boot with recent kernels. > > [...] > > > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE #1 > > > > Can they upgrade to 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686 and try an out-of-tree build > > of the driver at http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.32.11-99.fc12/ ? > > > > It should be quite close to the current git kernel. > > > > I provided a bunch of testers with a backport of the current git head > r8169 driver, and sadly, they report the TX timeout issues still occur. > :/ > > Any other ideas? Scratch the NIC ? Normally not related, but I mentioned once following patch that could be tried. (Not reset the NIC if we receive too many frames in a row) diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c index 217e709..c4dbb15 100644 --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c @@ -4520,10 +4520,8 @@ static int rtl8169_rx_interrupt(struct net_device *dev, dev->stats.rx_length_errors++; if (status & RxCRC) dev->stats.rx_crc_errors++; - if (status & RxFOVF) { - rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reset_task); + if (status & RxFOVF) dev->stats.rx_fifo_errors++; - } rtl8169_mark_to_asic(desc, tp->rx_buf_sz); } else { struct sk_buff *skb = tp->Rx_skbuff[entry]; -- 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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