From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [TG3]: About hw coalescing infrastructure. Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20050704.142604.18592223.davem@davemloft.net> References: <42B982D4.9040704@cosmosbay.com> <1119467012.5325.15.camel@rh4> <42C9A884.1030906@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mchan@broadcom.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: dada1@cosmosbay.com In-Reply-To: <42C9A884.1030906@cosmosbay.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:22:12 +0200 > But it seems something is wrong because when network load becomes high I get : > > Jul 4 23:01:19 dada1 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > Jul 4 23:01:19 dada1 kernel: tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting > Jul 4 23:01:24 dada1 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > Jul 4 23:01:24 dada1 kernel: tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting > Jul 4 23:01:29 dada1 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Does this happen without changing the coalescing settings at all?