netdev - Re: r8169 driver compatibility with rtl8168 [need confirm]

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Message-ID: <20080226201441.GA15796@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:14:41 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Miroslav Kratochvil <exa.exa@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 driver compatibility with rtl8168 [need confirm]

Miroslav Kratochvil <exa.exa@...il.com> :
[...]
> Many users who have onboard Realtek 8168 network controllers in
> combination with nVidia hardware (mostly nVidia graphic card and/or
> nForce motherboard (MCP5x) ) experience still-not-very-explained
> hangup triggered by heavy network usage which fills a tx buffer, and
> (speculation) causes race condition on irq sharing, resulting in
> absolute freeze (not oops/panic). On all affected machines I've seen
> this fix solved the problem:

Where can the reports of these users be found ?

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Ueimor
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