Re: r8169 link up but no traffic, and watchdog error

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 24.08.2023 10:01, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 24 2023, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 18.08.2023 13:49, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Aug 09 2023, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> There were some fix in r8169 for power management changes recently.
>>>> Could you try the latest stable kernel? 6.4.9 ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have just upgraded to latest Debian testing kernel (6.4.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP
>>> PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.4.11-1) but it doesn't seem to make much
>>> difference. I can trigger the same issue again, and get similar kernel error
>>> as before:
>>>
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>> From the line above it's not clear which kernel version is used. Best test with a
>> self-compiled mainline kernel.
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> It should be based on 6.4.11 , but I can try with a self-compiled version too.
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>> Please test also with the different ASPM L1 states disabled, you can use the sysfs
>> attributes under /sys/class/net/enp3s0/device/link/ for this.
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> I will try that.
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> 
>> Best bisect between last known good kernel and latest 6.4 version.
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> I do not know of any working version. My machine/system have had this behavior
> ever since I've got it. At least for 9 months ...

You could compile and test the LTS versions 6.1 and 5.15.