From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752953AbZEJQ2N (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 12:28:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751965AbZEJQ15 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 12:27:57 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.218.174]:42147 "EHLO mail-bw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751634AbZEJQ14 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 12:27:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=wDewMR3/tG75B9vfR5ZT7LHEJExAb/UZCq1f/iaXN+LtbqGKk8S8rekbEoxQ4grNK6 P16V6VE5AQeMTh727WH80t8jBcCy2RwHKRpzDtFr44em4xqbrQeQxSUnfwIBG96aVVWk zNRaKgsieaFKPF8PCd3nze+GY/gZBVFQd/rSA= Message-ID: <4A070089.4090804@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 18:27:53 +0200 From: Michael Riepe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Buesch CC: Francois Romieu , Rui Santos , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Michael_B=FCker?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too References: <200903041828.49972.m.bueker@berlin.de> <200904041950.04324.mb@bu3sch.de> <4A06D8D2.4010505@googlemail.com> <200905101753.35282.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: <200905101753.35282.mb@bu3sch.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Buesch wrote: >>It seems to me that this particular chip really doesn't like MSI. > > > I can confirm this. I tried with msi enabled and it starts breaking > after a few seconds of heavy transfers. Disabling MSI results in a reliable connection. > > Maybe we should disable MSI as temporary workaround for affected chips? Yep. It may not solve the problem, but it's a lot better than turning MSI off for everything, including apparently working NICs that use the same driver(s). -- Michael "Tired" Riepe X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little