netdev - Re: r8169 driver from kernel 5.0 crashing

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Message-ID: <c1a8b731-d115-04af-384e-69835a3f5cc6@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 10 Mar 2019 20:35:39 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     VDR User <user.vdr@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 driver from kernel 5.0 crashing

On 10.03.2019 20:02, VDR User wrote:
> Hi, after updating to kernel 5.0, the nic driver (r8169) has been
> crashing whenever I start using heavy traffic on it (for example,
> xferring large files to the box across my lan). The destination
> harddrive may be sleeping and need to spin-up, or not, but the box
> itself does not suspend/hibernate. The nic becomes completely
> unresponsive and all connections to the box drop. After what I think
> is several minutes, the connection comes back to life. The problem
> happens consistently but seemingly not consistently at the same point.
> For example, I can xfer a few 4gb files and it will crash at around
> 2-3gb on the first file. The next time it might not crash until 2-3gb
> on the second file.Prior to kernel 5.0 I was using 4.19.12 and this
> problem didn't occur. I have since downgraded back to 4.19.12 pending
> what response this post gets.
> 
> Thanks for any help or assistance on how to proceed!
> -Derek
> 
Thanks for the report. Helpful would be:
- full dmesg output
- "lspci -vv" output (as root) for the network card
- ethtool -S <if> output

Can you test a recent 4.20 kernel? This would narrow down the number
of potentially problematic patches.

Heiner