From: "Andrew Hall" <andrew.hall@bluereefnetworks.com>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT] sky2: transmit complete alternative
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:18:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05ba01c6ccc5$4dd64730$5001010a@bluereef.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060830163636.78fa1aed@localhost.localdomain
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:22:05 +1000
> "Andrew Hall" <andrew.hall@bluereefnetworks.com> wrote:
>
>> Has there been any updates on a fix for the sky2 tx timeout issues?
>>
>> I have been tracking this problem for a while and consistently see this
>> issue when the interface is under heavy load. I'm using 2.6.17.11 but
>> have
>> tried .15, .16, .17 and .18rcX all with the same issue - a large amount
>> of
>> (HTTP generated test workload) traffic will cause the driver to stop
>> responding, report an error (as below)
>> and the machine to "hang" for about 20 seconds. As others have mentioned,
>> a
>> down/up of the interface will recover until it locks up again. The dmesg
>> output for me is usually something like:
>>
>> sky2 eth1: tx timeout
>> sky2 eth1: transmit ring 397 .. 356 report=399 done 399
>> sky2 status report lost?
>>
>> I have also tried the new transmit code that was supplied earlier in this
>> thread without improvement of this situation.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.,
>>
>
> Are you running ipv6? there was just a fix where ipv6 was sending
> the hardware bad data?
>
> --
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
No, IPv4.. looks like this is a different issue.. Can I supply any data to
help solve this issue?
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2006-08-30 23:22 [RFT] sky2: transmit complete alternative Andrew Hall
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2006-08-31 6:18 ` Andrew Hall [this message]
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2006-08-21 12:41 sky2 driver - large files upload problem Jon Wikne
2006-08-21 13:18 ` Daniel Drake
2006-08-21 14:21 ` Jon Wikne
2006-08-21 16:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-21 22:04 ` Jon Wikne
2006-08-22 22:38 ` [RFT] sky2: transmit complete alternative Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-23 10:06 ` Jon Wikne
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