From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [TG3]: About hw coalescing infrastructure. Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:39:35 +0200 Message-ID: <42C9AC97.1020902@cosmosbay.com> References: <42B982D4.9040704@cosmosbay.com> <1119467012.5325.15.camel@rh4> <42C9A884.1030906@cosmosbay.com> <20050704.142604.18592223.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: mchan@broadcom.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050704.142604.18592223.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller a =E9crit : > From: Eric Dumazet > Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:22:12 +0200 >=20 >=20 >>But it seems something is wrong because when network load becomes high = I get : >> >>Jul 4 23:01:19 dada1 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out >>Jul 4 23:01:19 dada1 kernel: tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting >>Jul 4 23:01:24 dada1 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out >>Jul 4 23:01:24 dada1 kernel: tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting >>Jul 4 23:01:29 dada1 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out >=20 >=20 > Does this happen without changing the coalescing settings > at all? >=20 >=20 Not easy to answer because I have to rebuild a kernel and reboot. Will do= that shortly.