netdev - Re: 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too

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Message-ID: <4A09DC3E.2080807@googlemail.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 22:29:50 +0200
From:	Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com>
To:	David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
CC:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Rui Santos <rsantos@...popie.com>,
	Michael Büker <m.bueker@...lin.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too

Hi!

David Dillow wrote:

> I was saying that I don't think the timeouts are necessarily the NIC
> chipset -- or the bridge chip for that matter --  having issues with
> MSI. There were some substantial IRQ handling changes in 2.6.28 and my
> bisection of the problem seem to lead into that code. I'll try this
> later tonight hopefully, but can you try to run 2.6.27 with the current
> r8169 driver and see if it is solid for you? That way it is using the
> same driver code, but avoids the IRQ changes.

Unfortunately, 2.6.27 won't build with r8169.c copied from 2.6.29.

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Michael "Tired" Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com>
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