From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matt Carlson" Subject: Re: tg3 stops working when NFS is involved Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:40:38 -0700 Message-ID: <20090608164038.GA8825@xw6200.broadcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "Matthew Carlson" To: "Christian Kujau" Return-path: Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:4741 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753180AbZFHQkl (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:40:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 10:18:52PM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Christian Kujau wrote: > > anything else - so, I figure it's not a client problem. And I'm not sure > > if it's NFS problem either, because restarting the NFS server doesn't do > > anything, I really have to rmmod/modprobe the tg3 module. OTOH, I cannot > > reproduce this without NFS: running e.g. iperf (TCP, UDP) did not trigger > > it. > > Just tested with Samba - after a few megabytes of transmitted data, tg3 stops > working, with no messages printed in the kernel log :-\ > > I don't know why iperf does not trigger it though.... Hi Christian. This seems to be a common problem with the 5906 on some notebooks. The word on the street is that turning sg off through ethtool seems to avoid the problem. While I dig deeper into this problem, you could try that and see if it helps you.