netdev - Re: r8169 transmit queue time outs

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Message-ID: <20100519134344.GI3900@ihatethathostname.lab.bos.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 09:43:44 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@...hat.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dgilmore@...hat.com
Subject: Re: r8169 transmit queue time outs

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:10:24PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@...hat.com> :
> [...]
> > Some of our users have been seeing their r8169 cards just up and stop
> > transmitting packets pretty quickly after boot with recent kernels.
> [...]
> > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE #1
> 
> Can they upgrade to 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686 and try an out-of-tree build
> of the driver at http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.32.11-99.fc12/ ?
> 
> It should be quite close to the current git kernel.
> 

I provided a bunch of testers with a backport of the current git head
r8169 driver, and sadly, they report the TX timeout issues still occur.
:/

Any other ideas?

regards, Kyle
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