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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:51:17 +0200 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Ingo Molnar a écrit : >> The following changes since commit 52989765629e7d182b4f146050ebba0abf2cb0b7: >> Linus Torvalds (1): >> Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../davem/net-2.6 >> >> are available in the git repository at: >> >> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git master > > Hm, something in this lot quickly wrecked networking here - see the > tx timeout dump below. It starts with: > > [ 351.004596] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:246 dev_watchdog+0x10b/0x19c() > [ 351.011815] Hardware name: System Product Name > [ 351.016220] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (forcedeth): transmit queue 0 timed out > > Config attached. Unfortunately i've got no time to do bisection > today. forcedeth might have a problem, in its netif_wake_queue() logic, but I could not see why a recent patch could make this problem visible now. CPU0/1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02 is not a new cpu either :) forcedeth uses an internal tx_stop without appropriate barrier. Could you try following patch ? (random guess as I dont have much time right now) Thank you diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c index 1094d29..dc6bbde 100644 --- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c +++ b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c @@ -2165,7 +2165,7 @@ static int nv_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) empty_slots = nv_get_empty_tx_slots(np); if (unlikely(empty_slots <= entries)) { netif_stop_queue(dev); - np->tx_stop = 1; + set_mb(np->tx_stop, 1); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&np->lock, flags); return NETDEV_TX_BUSY; } @@ -2286,7 +2286,7 @@ static int nv_start_xmit_optimized(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) empty_slots = nv_get_empty_tx_slots(np); if (unlikely(empty_slots <= entries)) { netif_stop_queue(dev); - np->tx_stop = 1; + set_mb(np->tx_stop, 1); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&np->lock, flags); return NETDEV_TX_BUSY; } @@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@ static void nv_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev) else status = readl(base + NvRegIrqStatus) & NVREG_IRQSTAT_MASK; - printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Got tx_timeout. irq: %08x\n", dev->name, status); + printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Got tx_timeout. irq: %08x tx_stop=%d\n", dev->name, status, np->tx_stop); { int i; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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