linux-kernel - Re: net: tx timeouts with skge, 8139too, dmfe drivers/NICs

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Message-Id: <200802260009.46487.mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:09:46 +0200
From:	Marin Mitov <mitov@...p.bas.bg>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: tx timeouts with skge, 8139too, dmfe drivers/NICs

Hi Stephen,

> Make sure the interrupt is showing up as level triggered in
> /proc/interrupts. The BIOS may be configuring it as edge-triggered and that
> won't work with Ethernet drivers that use NAPI.

for: skge <--> Marvell 88E8001 chip
cat /proc/interrupts gives (AMD64 X2 SMP):
           CPU0       CPU1
 21:   11691000   11933174   IO-APIC-fasteoi   eth0

It is neither IO-APIC-edge, nor IO-APIC-level.

Could it be the problem?

Marin Mitov


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