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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Cc: hayeswang@realtek.com, nic_swsd@realtek.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Enable RX_MULTI_EN for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_40
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:55:59 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C71F1F.8040607@daenzer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140716.152517.952351917803362794.davem@davemloft.net>

On 17.07.2014 07:25, David Miller wrote:
> From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:54:12 +0200
> 
>> Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com> :
>>>  Michel D?nzer [mailto:michel@daenzer.net] 
>> [...]
>>>> Without this, the ethernet port on my ASUS A88X Pro mainboard stops
>>>> working sometimes, with messages like these in dmesg:
>>>>
>>>> AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=05:00.0 
>>>> domain=0x001e address=0x0000000000003000 flags=0x0050]
>>>
>>> I search the information about your issue. It seems to be
>>> relative to the IOMMU. I don't sure if your patch is the root
>>> cause or a workaround.
>>
>> Btw, a few extra identifiers in rtl_init_rxcfg may improve consistency:
>>
>>            missing             |          included
>> -------------------------------+-------------------------------
>> RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_36 (8168f)    | RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35 (8168f)
>> RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_38 (RTL8411)  | RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_44 (RTL8411)
>> RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_39 (RTL8106e) | RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_43 (RTL8106e)
>> RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_37 (RTL8402)  |
> 
> Michel please take Francois's feedback here into consideration and also
> provide a more detailed commit message so other people reading the commit
> can understand your reasoning for making this change, not just what the
> result might be for making it.

I'm afraid I can't do that. I don't really understand any of this stuff,
I just googled the IOMMU event message, found similar patches for other
chipsets, and adapted them for my mainboard until the problem stopped.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer            |                  http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast          |                Mesa and X developer

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-17  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15  6:41 [PATCH] r8169: Enable RX_MULTI_EN for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_40 Michel Dänzer
2014-07-15  9:29 ` Hayes Wang
2014-07-15  9:56   ` Michel Dänzer
2014-07-15 21:54   ` Francois Romieu
2014-07-16 22:25     ` David Miller
2014-07-17  0:55       ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2014-07-17  3:29         ` David Miller
2014-07-17  3:55           ` [PATCH v2] " Michel Dänzer
2014-07-17  5:24             ` David Miller

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