From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyle McMartin Subject: Re: r8169 transmit queue time outs Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:43:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20100519134344.GI3900@ihatethathostname.lab.bos.redhat.com> References: <20100506141715.GC4480@ihatethathostname.lab.bos.redhat.com> <20100506201024.GA3541@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Kyle McMartin , netdev@vger.kernel.org, dgilmore@redhat.com To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44112 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751441Ab0ESNnu (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2010 09:43:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100506201024.GA3541@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:10:24PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Kyle McMartin : > [...] > > Some of our users have been seeing their r8169 cards just up and stop > > transmitting packets pretty quickly after boot with recent kernels. > [...] > > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE #1 > > Can they upgrade to 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686 and try an out-of-tree build > of the driver at http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.32.11-99.fc12/ ? > > It should be quite close to the current git kernel. > I provided a bunch of testers with a backport of the current git head r8169 driver, and sadly, they report the TX timeout issues still occur. :/ Any other ideas? regards, Kyle