Re: tg3 timeouts with 2.6.17-rc6

[Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>]

Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> writes:

> Juergen Kreileder
>
>> I'm seeing frequent network timeouts on my PowerMac G5 Quad with
>> 2.6.17-rc6.  The timeouts are easily reproducible with moderate
>> network traffic, e.g. by using bittorrent.
>>
>
> Did this use to work with an older kernel or older tg3 driver? If
> yes, what version?

Works fine with 2.6.16 and earlier.

> Please also provide the full tg3 probing output during modprobe and
> ifconfig up. Thanks.

,----
| tg3.c:v3.58 (May 22, 2006)
| eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95780) rev 8003 PHY(5780)] (PCIX:133MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:14:51:66:ff:b2
| eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1] 
| eth0: dma_rwctrl[76144000] dma_mask[40-bit]
| eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95780) rev 8003 PHY(5780)] (PCIX:133MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:14:51:66:ff:b3
| eth1: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1] 
| eth1: dma_rwctrl[76144000] dma_mask[40-bit]
| [...]
| tg3: lan0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
| tg3: lan0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
`----

eth0 and eth1 get renamed to lan0 and lan1 by udev.  eth0/lan0 is
connected to a Gigabit switch eth1/lan1 is not connected.
Both interface are controlled by ifplugd (using SIOCETHTOOL for link
beat detection).

Let me know if you need more debugging output.


        Juergen

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