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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:35:11 +0200
From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bisected regression] Partial breakage of forcedeth driver
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Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:23:59AM CEST, johnstul@us.ibm.com wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> commit 3326c784c9f492e988617d93f647ae0cfd4c8d09
>> Author: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@>
>> Date:   Wed Jul 20 04:54:38 2011 +0000
>>
>>    forcedeth: do vlan cleanup
>>
>>    - unify vlan and nonvlan rx path
>>    - kill np->vlangrp and nv_vlan_rx_register
>>    - allow to turn on/off rx vlan accel via ethtool (set_features)
>>
>>    Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@>
>>    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@>
>>
>> This commit causes networking trouble for my nForce-based motherboard.
>> (Details happily supplied if needed.)
>>
>> I say 'partial' breakage because networking is not completely dead,
>> just limping very slowly :)
>>
>> The simplest test is to ping any host (in my LAN or on the internet,
>> makes no difference).  The replies to my ping come at very irregular
>> intervals, ranging from normal to 5-10 seconds or so, seemingly at
>> random AFAICT.
>
>I'm seeing this too.  Ping responses phase in and out every 10 seconds or so.
>
>Jiri, any thoughts?

Nothing so far. I plan to take a loot at this today. Will keep you guyes
posted.

Jirka

>
>thanks
>-john