From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754806AbZEJRJ0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 13:09:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751478AbZEJRJR (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 13:09:17 -0400 Received: from mx-out.daemonmail.net ([216.104.160.38]:41096 "EHLO mx-out.daemonmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750825AbZEJRJR (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 13:09:17 -0400 From: "Michael S. Zick" Reply-To: lkml@morethan.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 12:09:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200903041828.49972.m.bueker@berlin.de> <200905101753.35282.mb@bu3sch.de> <4A070089.4090804@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A070089.4090804@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905101209.15634.lkml@morethan.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun May 10 2009, Michael Riepe wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > >>It seems to me that this particular chip really doesn't like MSI. > > > > > > I can confirm this. I tried with msi enabled and it starts breaking > > after a few seconds of heavy transfers. Disabling MSI results in a reliable connection. > > > > Maybe we should disable MSI as temporary workaround for affected chips? > > Yep. It may not solve the problem, but it's a lot better than turning > MSI off for everything, including apparently working NICs that use the > same driver(s). > Lucky people, at least you have a device specific driver. ;) No device specific driver for the Via PCI-to-PCIe bridge (1106:324B) used in the CX700 chip set. (and the 8139too driver is not acting up on this machine.) Not a problem in my case, building without MSI support gives up very little. Mike