netdev - Re: sky2 problems on Intel Mac Mini

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Message-ID: <LF3DwQ8KEqWr.IS8NEpV+rQSn3zksVUhTmQ@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:39:19 +0000
From:	Chris Lightfoot <chris@...parrot.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sky2 problems on Intel Mac Mini

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:01:17PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:57:32 +0000
> Chris Lightfoot <chris@...parrot.com> wrote:
> 
> >   [ please cc: me on any reply ]
> > 
> > I'm seeing lots of problems with the sky2 driver on Mac
> > Minis. Based on the suggestions in,
> >     http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg28221.html
> > I am running stock 2.6.19 + the patches from the
> > mactel-linux.org site to get the kernel booting on the
> > Apple hardware; none of these touches the sky2 code. The
> > module is installed with disable_msi=1 and
> > idle_timeout=10; the chip version is,
> >     Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2
> > 
> > The crashes we're seeing at the moment show (with
> > debug=16) lots and lots of transmits being queued up and
> > never being completed, even with the timeout switched on.
> > For instance, (this is on a machine running NFS root and
> > vlans)
> 
> Is this NFS over UDP?

yes. but we see similar problems on machines which aren't
doing lots of UDP traffic.

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