From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: v3.5: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 21:24:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20120801192455.GA29755@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20120730190236.30339.qmail@science.horizon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: George Spelvin Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:55626 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752452Ab2HATiv (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:38:51 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120730190236.30339.qmail@science.horizon.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: George Spelvin : [...] > There are a few local patches, but only two are anywhere close to the > network interface, and they are test patches designed to fix this. > Should I get rid of them? It's up to you but I suggest that you keep them until there is something better. As long as the device recovers, you may try and lower the watchdog timeout as well as increase the Tx ring size a bit (x2 or x4) to minimize the annoyances. -- Ueimor