From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262190AbUKVQzg (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:55:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262214AbUKVQyF (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:54:05 -0500 Received: from lilah.hetzel.org ([199.250.128.2]:45798 "EHLO lilah.hetzel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261537AbUKVQvN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:51:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:13:07 -0500 From: Dorn Hetzel To: Francois Romieu Cc: Dorn Hetzel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: r8169.c Message-ID: <20041122181307.GA3625@lilah.hetzel.org> References: <20041119162920.GA26836@lilah.hetzel.org> <20041119201203.GA13522@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20041120003754.GA32133@lilah.hetzel.org> <20041120002946.GA18059@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041120002946.GA18059@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:29:46AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Dorn Hetzel : > > You have two options (or more) on top of 2.6.10-rc2: > - ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2-mm2/2.6.10-rc2-mm2.bz2 > - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.10-rc2-netdev1.patch.bz2 > I have gotten as far as rc2-mm2, which was a fairly complete failure. After just a couple of pings on the interface, the whole system started to freeze up fairly hard. Please see http://www.hetzel.org/8169/rc2-mm2/ for a set of information on the system state this time around. The last two lines in messages.txt are: illyria kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out illyria kernel: eth0: interrupt 0001 taken in poll Then things go south pretty hard and fast... I'll try the other patches on top of rc2-mm2 tonight and see if that turns out any better :) > Once you have applied one of the patch above, the patch below will improve > your "transmit timed out" (please apply in order and enable NAPI): > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.10-rc2-mm1/r8169-250.patch > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.10-rc2-mm1/r8169-255.patch > > If things perform better you may want to use bigger frames and apply as > well r8169-260.patch and r8169-265.patch. > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.10-rc2-mm1/r8169-260.patch > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.10-rc2-mm1/r8169-265.patch > Thanks again for all your help! -Dorn