From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 02:29:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 02:28:57 -0400 Received: from gec.gecpalau.com ([206.49.60.67]:39512 "EHLO gec.gecpalau.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 02:28:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3B134260.1030309@gecpalau.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:32:00 +0900 From: Glenn Shannon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-ac2-WARKERN i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010421 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Voloshin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: 2.4.4 hang on large network transfers with RTL-8139 In-Reply-To: <20010529142019.C757@ws17.krasu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Anton Voloshin wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a kernel hang (can easily be reproduced on my computer). > It happens on relatively large outgoing network traffic. > For instance, on trying to upload some large file from workstation to > other machine via SMB or FTP. > > On 2.4.4 hang was after sending about 20Kb. > On 2.4.5 it seems to hang after 870+ Kb. > When sending data via slow link (e.g. local Ethernet -> remote modem), > everything is Ok. > > Network card is (taken from /proc/pci): > > Bus 1, device 11, function 0: > Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16). > IRQ 10. > Master Capable. Latency=208. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. > I/O at 0x7800 [0x78ff]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebfff00 [0xfebfffff]. > > 2.4.3 works Ok, 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 both has this problem. > > Lamer's assumption: maybe troubles with sendfile() after zero-copy patches? > Actually I get the same problem (I kind of have to run 2.4.5-ac2 however). I just try not to download or upload large files over fast links. Glenn Shannon