From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261966AbTI2Q5H (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:57:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261178AbTI2Q5H (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:57:07 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([63.247.75.124]:25777 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261966AbTI2Qzy (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:55:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:55:50 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Andreas Schwarz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 8139too & APIC incompatibility (2.6.0-test6-mm1, 2.4.20) Message-ID: <20030929165550.GA6526@gtf.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:47:29PM +0000, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > When APIC is activated, the following messages appear in syslog from > time to time: > > kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out > kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. > kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) > kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. > kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. > kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. > kernel: eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 > > After this has happened the first time, the card fails to send or > receive any more packages. Yes. Has nothing to do with 8139too, though. This is one of 1001 similar symptoms of the same problem, "interrupt routing bug(s)". Jeff