netdev - Re: About r8169 regression 5.4

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Date:   Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:08:10 +0200
From:   Vincas Dargis <vindrg@...il.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About r8169 regression 5.4

2020-02-16 01:27, Heiner Kallweit rašė:
> One more idea:
> Commit "r8169: enable HW csum and TSO" enables certain hardware offloading by default.
> Maybe your chip version has a hw issue with offloading. You could try:
> 
> 1. Disable TSO
> ethtool -K <if> tso off
> 
> 2. If this didn't help, disable all offloading.
> ethtool -K <if> tx off sg off tso off
> 

Unmodified 5.4 was running successfully for whole Sunday with `tx off sg off tso off`! Disabling only tso did not help, while disabling all actually avoided the timeout.

I've attached kern.log from boot 'til 5.4 got that timeout (when I did not use these off's).

About bisecting - I need to figure out how to build linux-image and linux-headers package only, to reduce that almost hour build...

View attachment "kern.log" of type "text/x-log" (223162 bytes)