From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: For the netdev list Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 20:26:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20110507182632.GA20492@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <14130884-5927-4B8D-A52E-56C245D8225B@virtualcomputer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Tom Goetz Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:33241 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755901Ab1EGSfz (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 May 2011 14:35:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <14130884-5927-4B8D-A52E-56C245D8225B@virtualcomputer.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Tom Goetz : > 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