From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932247AbWGXRtx (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:49:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932242AbWGXRtx (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:49:53 -0400 Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]:17216 "EHLO mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932238AbWGXRtw (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:49:52 -0400 Message-ID: <44C50A04.5020002@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:57:24 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060603) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Todd Showalter CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems with sky2 driver. References: <20060724133829.49bf7979@akemi> In-Reply-To: <20060724133829.49bf7979@akemi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Todd Showalter wrote: > I've been having trouble with the sky2 driver. It appears to work > most of the time, but it will quite often wedge during transfers. The > 2.6.17.* kernels actually seem worse than 2.6.16.19, but none of them > work perfectly. > > What typically happens is that after working perfectly for a while, > existing net connections hang, and subsequent net connections don't > seem to start at all. firefox gets stuck with a bunch of half-loaded > pages, for instance, and I've watched an scp of a large file to a > colleague's machine stall and remain stalled. Please test with the very latest git snapshot. A critical fix was applied after 2.6.18-rc2 was released. > Once the machine is behaving this way, a reboot is the only way I > have found of recovering it. > > We have two identical machines here that are both behaving this > way, so I'm assuming it's not a hardware problem per se. The machines > are Intel Pentium D 940 (3GHz) processors. They have ASUS P5LD2 > motherboards, with builtin Marvell PCIe 88E8053 gigabit ethernet > controllers. > > I'm not running any binary modules; it's an untainted kernel. I'm > running a Gentoo system, but I'm using the vanilla-sources kernel (ie: > a pure kernel.org release, not the Gentoo-specific patched version). > > What can I do to help solve this?