Tigon3 crash when used with any torrent app

Tigon3 crash when used with any torrent app

[Sebastian Alfredo Salvino]

Hello all

I just upgraded to a custom compiled 2.6.18 kernel on my debian etch box, and 
my network card uses the tg3 driver loaded as a module.

However when I am booted up into 2.6.18 and try to connect to any p2p network 
via BitTorrent, KTorrent, etc., it just hang. 

dmesg output:

tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.

lspci -v output:

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit 
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cf
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 90
        Memory at dcef0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ 
Queue=0/3 Enable+
        Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel

I also tried turning off tso with no luck so far.

Do you have any idea what happened to the tg3 driver in 2.6.18 that caused 
this issue and what I could do to fix this issue.


Thanks in advance,
Sebastian

Re: Tigon3 crash when used with any torrent app

[Michael Chan]

Sebastian Alfredo Salvino wrote:

> However when I am booted up into 2.6.18 and try to connect to 
> any p2p network 
> via BitTorrent, KTorrent, etc., it just hang. 
> 

Did the same setup work in 2.6.17?  If yes, can you bisect
the tg3 patches between 2.6.17 and 2.6.18?

Looking at the patches between 2.6.17 and 2.6.18, nothing
really jumps out, especially if you have already tried
turning off TSO.

Re: Tigon3 crash when used with any torrent app

[Herbert Xu]

Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Sebastian Alfredo Salvino wrote:
> 
>> However when I am booted up into 2.6.18 and try to connect to 
>> any p2p network 
>> via BitTorrent, KTorrent, etc., it just hang. 
> 
> Did the same setup work in 2.6.17?  If yes, can you bisect
> the tg3 patches between 2.6.17 and 2.6.18?

Does ping still work? If so you might want to take a tcpdump
as this indicates a TCP-level problem (window-scaling being
the most likely cause).

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