From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265862AbTL3Qwy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:52:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265855AbTL3Qw3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:52:29 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:43970 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265854AbTL3QwM (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:52:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:52:06 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Brian Macy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0 and Starfire NIC Message-ID: <20031230165206.GO27687@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Brian Macy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3FF1AC4D.9040002@macykids.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FF1AC4D.9040002@macykids.net> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:48:13AM -0800, Brian Macy wrote: > When switching to 2.6.0 my Starfire NIC fails to function with an > entertaining message: > Dec 23 16:36:45 job kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 0x02018101. > Dec 23 16:36:45 job kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 0x02010001. > I don't know if this is related but in 2.4 I get PCI bus congestion for > the starfire adapter: > eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 80 bytes > eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 96 bytes > eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 112 bytes > eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 128 bytes > eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 144 bytes > eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 160 bytes In 2.6, I get the message you got in 2.4. -- wli