From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings 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 Message-ID: <1297125550.2876.21.camel@localhost> References: <20110207150919.cd253b97.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-M5118eWFLJubnpQAwyPW" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, Jan Beulich , Neil Horman , Steffen Klassert , Andrew Morton To: for.poige+bugzilla.kernel.org@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33902 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755396Ab1BHAjU (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:39:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110207150919.cd253b97.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-M5118eWFLJubnpQAwyPW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. --=-M5118eWFLJubnpQAwyPW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUATVCQqOe/yOyVhhEJAQLmlQ//Vq2btEFtEKKAJnbFuVX+v23ol1QMKJs0 OB97D6LUz3JjcJZCYwmyTm3bafICf5FI6szEttoGHjit0ghRAwi3fsIkBfStCMcG QHyoAbCjcytejr7R/8hgv6Z+6S+fxNAfdRJXVarwo3AheKDVyEw+9mOr6LUnze5o F3zuHPcvrzdO3RQ3qdpOu0KXc3iJb1plxa+3JCqaqp4ZZiaF1Tzxn5gqT6cWIhMB AR6lGmg6ri25p2l38KKwLradBJxNo8joY7ADkpvRLhIdsWw82ZF+KQwD/H7T/mnF 6+V9OwZkYFlNggQVv7Bh0hLY0UgTf4PcmJKIdLHWSa3Cioj6UF/v08rojFhMvRvi YjG74nOyzv5PH6+IQEkYr26HU602KuBkkiwTAj7QfXsh8RIRBve7konR/fzkCQuL 9TmAEbVdVwDmPk8OnoLf3macgr97bB5/po7BqD6Wn6rJBevCf+EiAuZCInsH/nEK sNFXbCHXOtjduhfV78nshcM+nbIEdScR3nwHwdhkfbtW+ExnbOx42xjlo3b9L5DD KejpwttxBAOe9+9/0nnbq6/cTvWD0cc5ltH1n3CSmwXpyjorYNALQ4cX0LNi1sRw QHDsQaJKszRlIwMzM7AhMmvKyKW1Euqf8v6/v4tS5FlKcJLzxS1qDV8UeRUR72xB sI87+ZDiRk0= =fk+g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-M5118eWFLJubnpQAwyPW--