From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Moffat Subject: Re: r8169 on 3.8.13, 3.9.2, 3.10-rc1, was Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 18:09:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20130515170947.GA10174@milliways> References: <20130509222757.917088509@linuxfoundation.org> <20130515000715.GA20099@milliways> <20130515061401.GA4382@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Holger Hoffstaette , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130515061401.GA4382@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 08:14:01AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Ken Moffat : > [...] > > Cc'ing to netdev because I don't think this has had a response, an= d >=20 > A patch has been sent to netdev a few hours ago. It needs more work, > especially testing (hint, hint) as I don't have a proven test case ye= t. >=20 > Please note: > - if you don't use a 8168evl (check your dmesg for the XID line emitt= ed > by the r8169 driver), you are not the experiencing the same bug. [ 3.174180] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: RTL8168evl/8111evl at 0xffffc90000008000, c8:60:00:97:07:35, XID 0c900800 IRQ 41 > - if you don't enable Tx checksum offload (distro/vendor dependent th= ough > disabled by default in the vanilla driver, see ethtool -k eth0, > ethtool -K eth0 tx on sg on)), you are not the experiencing the sam= e > bug. If it is disabled by default then my problem is different (I don't have an ethtool program) > - if you are experiencing the same bug, 3.10-rc1 should work again > after reverting e5195c1f31f399289347e043d6abf3ffa80f0005 >=20 > If someone comes with a failing network capture and a working one, it= will > save time. A 64 bytes (max) packet is not correctly transmitted. >=20 > --=20 > Ueimor Thanks for the detailed comments, looks as if my intermittent problem is something else. ken --=20 das eine Mal als Trag=F6die, das andere Mal als Farce