From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Tom Goetz <tom.goetz@virtualcomputer.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: For the netdev list
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 20:26:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110507182632.GA20492@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14130884-5927-4B8D-A52E-56C245D8225B@virtualcomputer.com>
Tom Goetz <tom.goetz@virtualcomputer.com> :
> We recently obtained a new a Lenovo Edge 0578-CTO. The r8169 driver causes
> instability in the system on this machine. The problem is that in
> rtl8169_rx_interrupt (status & 0x00001FFF) returns values less than four
This is unexpected. :o(
[...]
> For a work around we've added a patch to drop packets when we see this
> condition. I have attached lspci -vvv for this device and a patch for the
> work around we're using.
Thank you for debugging.
Can you grep for the XID of the device in the kernel's dmesg and specify
a bit of context for the problem (MTU ? features enabled through ethtool ?
kernel version ?) ?
--
Ueimor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-07 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-06 16:57 For the netdev list Tom Goetz
2011-05-07 18:26 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2011-05-09 12:36 ` Tom Goetz
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