From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: 3.4-rc: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 11:13:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20120602111335.0b94fb59@stein> References: <20120501182405.3dda59b9@stein> <20120501172748.GA17117@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20120501200423.6804dcf0@stein> <20120501200403.GA20763@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20120503204813.65468df7@stein> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:51777 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759150Ab2FBJNk (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jun 2012 05:13:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120503204813.65468df7@stein> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On May 03 Stefan Richter wrote: > On May 01 Francois Romieu wrote: > [...] > > Can you apply the patch below on top of current ethtool > > (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool.git) and see > > if it is enough to compare the register dumps (ethtool -d eth0). > [...] > > This is a firmware free chipset anyway. Nothing strange in the interface > > stats (ethtool -S eth0) ? > > > > You may have to narrow things. Can you check if the r8169.c at > > 036dafa28da1e2565a8529de2ae663c37b7a0060 behaves the same ? > > I will follow up on this eventually, but it may take quite some time due > to interfering work. > > Thank you for looking into it and giving directions, I haven't had time to look further into it yet. Just two minor findings: (a) After update from 3.4-rc5 to 3.4, the problem persisted. (b) Later I noticed that silent file corruptions on FireWire disks happened and happen under 3.4-rc5 and 3.4, so I reverted into 3.3.1 which fixed that issue. Furthermore, since 6 days uptime of 3.3.1, the eth0 (r8169) transmit queue time-out did never occur. I have no idea whether the FireWire and networking issues might be somehow connected, and I still lack time to investigate these issues (using Linux only at home, not at work), but I will eventually get back to it. -- Stefan Richter -=====-===-- -==- ---=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/