From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Cc: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Lots of "BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0" messages in 2.6.24
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:57:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201640243.4431.29.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5C1322C3E673F459512FB59E0DDC329046C6CC7@orsmsx414.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, 2008-29-01 at 11:57 -0800, Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:
> > I've just started to use 2.6.24 on my home firewall (before
> > it was running 2.6.24-rc2 for about 65 days) and I noticed a
> > couple of error messages I've never seen before:
> >
> > Jan 29 07:50:54 gateway kernel: BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 Jan
> > 29 08:28:30 gateway kernel: BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 Jan 29
> > 08:57:30 gateway kernel: BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 Jan 29
> > 09:44:04 gateway kernel: BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 Jan 29
> > 10:01:35 gateway kernel: BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 Jan 29
> > 10:01:35 gateway last message repeated 2 times Jan 29
> > 10:16:48 gateway kernel: BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 Jan 29
> > 10:16:48 gateway last message repeated 2 times Jan 29
> > 10:45:48 gateway kernel: BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 Jan 29
> > 10:45:48 gateway last message repeated 2 times Jan 29
> > 11:10:01 gateway kernel: BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 Jan 29
> > 11:10:02 gateway last message repeated 9 times
> >
> > The message seems to be coming from the qdisc_restart() in
> > net/sched/sch_generic.c which was changed with commit
> > 5f1a485d5905aa641f33009019b3699076666a4c .
> >
> > The NIC is an IBM EtherJet cardbus card using the xircom_cb driver:
>
> Are you using any specific qdisc, or just the default pfifo_fast? Have
> you done any specific tuning on your qdisc as well? The default qlen
> seems to have been changed.
The driver seems buggy. Make it return NETDEV_TX_BUSY instead of -EIO
in xircom_start_xmit() and the messages will go away.
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-29 18:47 Lots of "BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0" messages in 2.6.24 Erik Mouw
2008-01-29 19:57 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-01-29 20:57 ` jamal [this message]
2008-01-29 21:45 ` Erik Mouw
2008-01-29 23:08 ` jamal
2008-01-29 23:12 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-02-01 14:54 ` Erik Mouw
2008-02-01 19:07 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-01-29 21:48 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-01-29 21:00 ` Erik Mouw
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