From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] r8169 deadlocks Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:51:41 +1100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <200401192251.41323.harisri@bigpond.com> References: <200401152039.00182.harisri@bigpond.com> <20040115220827.A22007@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Francois Romieu In-Reply-To: <20040115220827.A22007@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello Francois, On Friday 16 January 2004 08:08, Francois Romieu wrote: > Can you monitor 'vmstat 1' output on the r8169 host during the test ? Here it is (2.6.1-bk2-netdev4): procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 0 0 887000 10820 87992 0 0 291 47 1051 170 7 4 83 6 0 0 0 886800 10820 87992 0 0 0 108 1042 13 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10820 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10820 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10820 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10836 87992 0 0 0 56 1013 18 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10840 87992 0 0 0 4 1009 10 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10840 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10840 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10840 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10848 87992 0 0 0 16 1011 11 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10848 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 7 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10848 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10848 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10848 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10856 87992 0 0 0 16 1011 11 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10864 87992 0 0 0 140 1037 12 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 886800 10864 87992 0 0 0 0 1008 3 0 0 100 0 2 0 0 886472 10864 87992 0 0 0 0 1305 1958 12 12 76 0 It hung at the final entry. > You can try 2.6.1-bk2 + Jeff Garzik's -netdev4 + > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/r8169-tx-index-overflow.patch The r8169-tc-index-overflow.patch does not (cleanly) apply on 2.6.1-bk2 + netdev4. > If it does not perform better, you can try against 2.6.1-bk1 the set at > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.1-bk1-b I am yet to try this combination. Thanks Hari