Re: 2.6.19.2 sky2/acpi crashes

Soeren Sonnenburg
2007-01-24T13:04:26Z

[This mail was also posted to newsgate.kernel.]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:12:50 +0000, Andrew Lyon wrote:

> On 1/23/07, Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:59:28 +0000, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm running a macbook with a Marvell ethernet controller, and I have a
>> > lots of freezes when using the ethernet controller under a load of
>> > ~100K/s. Since I'm running a 2.6.19.2 kernel, I'm able to get some
>> > report from the kernel. Here they are :
>>
>> I am also having trouble with the sky2 module, though I've not yet seen a
>> oops, the driver stopped working after some heavy traffic (copying some G
>> of data). Only rmmod sky2; modprobe sky2 resolved this. (I am also on
>> 2.6.19.2 but I've seen this happen on 2.6.20-rcX too).

[...]
> Ive also had the same problem with both 2.6.19.2 and 2.6.20-rcX,
> motherboard is gigabyte ga-965-ds3 , the networking stops completely
> under moderate traffic, I get the following errors or a complete
> lockup:
>
> Jan 21 02:08:04 beast NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Jan 21 02:08:04 beast sky2 eth0: tx timeout
> Jan 21 02:08:04 beast sky2 eth0: transmit ring 475 .. 452 report=475 done=475
> Jan 21 02:08:04 beast sky2 hardware hung? flushing
>
> At the time I was downloading a iso image at 850k/sec, so not really a
> high network load at all.
>
> rmmod / modprobe does resolve the issue, but more times than not the
> box locks up completely instead of getting those errors.

I am on a completely different system (macbook pro 1,1) with PREEMPT and
cpu frequency scaling on not sure how this could be related...

Soeren
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