linux-kernel - Re: 1e918876 breaks r8169 (linux-3.18+)

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Date:	Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:31:04 +0100
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	Tomas Szepe <szepe@...erecords.com>
Cc:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Marco Berizzi <pupilla@...mail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 1e918876 breaks r8169 (linux-3.18+)

Tomas Szepe <szepe@...erecords.com> wrote:
> > I tried to reproduce this without success so far on my RTL8168d/8111d device.
> > I've been running 40 parallel netperf TCP_STREAM tests (1gbit) for the
> > last 5 hours and so far I saw no watchdog tx timeouts.
> > 
> > I'll keep this running for a day or so to see if it just takes more time
> > to trigger.
> 
> So, how's this coming along?  Don't you think the patch should be reverted
> until the problem is diagnosed/understood/fixed?

Sorry.

David, please consider reverting

1e918876853aa85435e0f17fd8b4a92dcfff53d6
(r8169: add support for Byte Queue Limits)

	and

0bec3b700d106a8b0a34227b2976d1a582f1aab7
(r8169: add support for xmit_more)

I cannot reproduce any hangs (tried for 2days with 40 parallel
netperfs using both 100mbit and 1gbit receiver).

And I don't see anything wrong with the change either.
Seems like some revisions of the HW are just dodgy?

I hate giving up, but I have no means to diagnose this any further.
Even reporter says it doesn't affect all of his r8169 nics.

So I think the change is correct per se, but might be revealing some
HW/firmware bug.
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