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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: Mass udp flow reboot linux with RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:56:00 +0100
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Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> :
> Le dimanche 13 f??vrier 2011 ?? 02:35 +0100, Seblu a ??crit :
[...]
> Some attempts were done to avoid a reset on some chipsets.
> 
> You could try latest linux-2.6 tree. This includes commits 
> 
> f60ac8e7ab7cbb413a0131d5665b053f9f386526 (r8169: prevent RxFIFO induced
> loops in the irq handler.)
> 
> 1519e57fe81c14bb8fa4855579f19264d1ef63b4 (r8169: RxFIFO overflow
> oddities with 8168 chipsets.)
> 
> b5ba6d12bdac21bc0620a5089e0f24e362645efd (r8169: use RxFIFO overflow
> workaround for 8168c chipset.)

If it still does not perform better, please include the XID line of
the r8169 driver from dmesg.

-- 
Ueimor