From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Subject: NIU driver: Sun x8 Express Quad Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:45:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1225809909.10206.90.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: jdb@comx.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: "David S. Miller" Return-path: Received: from lanfw001a.cxnet.dk ([87.72.215.196]:44403 "EHLO lanfw001a.cxnet.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751398AbYKDOpN (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:45:13 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi DaveM I just bought the Sun x8 Express Quad Gigabit Ethernet Adapter you recommended to me. It seem to work with the NIU driver (I can ping through the box), but I get a kernel warning when spamming it with pktgen... Where do I go from here? And what do you want me to try? Tested on kernels: Kernel: 2.6.28-rc2 Kernel: 2.6.27 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5335 @ 2.00GHz System: HP ProLiant DL380-G5 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:226 dev_watchdog+0x21e/0x230() NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2 (niu): transmit timed out Modules linked in: ehci_hcd ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler rng_core hpwdt uhci_hcd serio_raw hpilo bnx2 zlib_inflate niu Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28-rc2-torvalds #2 Call Trace: [] warn_slowpath+0x63/0x80 [] ? __enqueue_entity+0x8e/0xb0 [] ? enqueue_task_fair+0x2d/0xe0 [] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x30 [] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x30 [] ? getnstimeofday+0x3b/0xe0 [] ? strlcpy+0x1e/0x60 [] dev_watchdog+0x21e/0x230 [] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x30 [] ? getnstimeofday+0x3b/0xe0 [] ? cascade+0x4b/0x60 [] run_timer_softirq+0x11f/0x190 [] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x3c/0xc0 [] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x230 [] __do_softirq+0x94/0x160 [] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x14a/0x170 [] do_softirq+0x3b/0x50 [] irq_exit+0x75/0x90 [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5a/0x90 [] ? hrtimer_start+0x1a/0x20 [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30 [] ? mwait_idle+0x35/0x40 [] cpu_idle+0x4e/0xa0 ---[ end trace 28edc9a90244cfaf ]--- niu 0000:0b:00.0: niu: eth2: Transmit timed out, resetting niu 0000:0b:00.0: niu: eth2: Transmit timed out, resetting niu 0000:0b:00.0: niu: eth2: Transmit timed out, resetting niu 0000:0b:00.0: niu: eth2: Transmit timed out, resetting niu 0000:0b:00.0: niu: eth2: Transmit timed out, resetting -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Jesper Brouer ComX Networks A/S Linux Network developer Cand. Scient Datalog / MSc. Author of http://adsl-optimizer.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer