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Message-ID: <20150221190507.GA25687@louise.pinerecords.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:05:08 +0100
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@...erecords.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.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, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 1e918876 breaks r8169 (linux-3.18+)
> > 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.
>
> Hold on.
>
> I believe there is one race in the way you access skb->xmit_more _after_
>
> txd->opts1 = cpu_to_le32(status);
>
> After this point, TX might have completed and TX completion already have
> freed skb
>
> Could Tomas try following fix ?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
> index ad0020af2193..f2764366a36c 100644
> ...
Sure, just did. Unfortunately, 3.19.0 + 0bec3b70 + this patch results
in a driver that retains the problem.
Sorry,
--
Tomas Szepe <szepe@...erecords.com>
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