From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frans Pop Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:04:09 +0100 Message-ID: <200801151504.10047.elendil@planet.nl> References: <200801150625.10823.elendil@planet.nl> <20080114.215317.38045859.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from hpsmtp-eml20.KPNXCHANGE.COM ([213.75.38.85]:47927 "EHLO hpsmtp-eml20.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801AbYAOOEM (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:04:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080114.215317.38045859.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 15 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Frans Pop > > kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang > > Does this make the problem go away? Yes, it very much looks like that solves it. I ran with the patch for 6 hours or so without any errors. I then switched back to an unpatched kernel and they reappeared immediately. > (Note this isn't the final correct patch we should apply. There > is no reason why this revert back to the older ->poll() logic > here should have any effect on the TX hang triggering...) s/no reason/no obvious reason/ ? ;-) Cheers, FJP