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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: for.poige+bugzilla.kernel.org@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 28542] New: 3c59x.c: Regression since 2.6.36 (incl.), for e. g., TCP stalls on receive
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:39:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297125550.2876.21.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110207150919.cd253b97.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 15:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 18:55:29 GMT
> bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
[...]
> > Dump of kernel source bz2 download being stalled:
> > http://poige.livejournal.com/475372.html#cutid1 (see the bunch of ACKs
> > #5555523).

That's not a stall, that's selective-ACKing (see the ranges listed on
the right of each ACK line).

> > As a workaround I've just replaced drivers/net/3c59x.c with its former
> > (2.6.35.11) version, the connectivity problems are gone now.

This could just be a coincidence.  But it could be that packet loss is
now more likely for some reason.  Does the rx_fifo_errors statistic
increase quickly with the later version of the driver?  (This seems to
be the only receive error type reported.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-02-07 23:09 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 28542] New: 3c59x.c: Regression since 2.6.36 (incl.), for e. g., TCP stalls on receive Andrew Morton
2011-02-08  0:39   ` Ben Hutchings [this message]

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