From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kok, Auke" Subject: Re: kernel softlockup/networking/e1000 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:23:30 -0800 Message-ID: <47681022.60500@intel.com> References: <20071218130531.M27756@visp.net.lb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Denys Fedoryshchenko Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:33379 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762119AbXLRSYL (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:24:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071218130531.M27756@visp.net.lb> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > At the beginning - kernel is with "gentoo patched", but i checked, there is > nothing major and almost none from patched code used on this router (there is > almost no networking patches, except e1000e support, small GRE fix and few > wireless things, which is not used). > > syslog > http://www.nuclearcat.com/kern.log Looks like you're hitting an old bug where there is a race between something running in the background continuously hitting ethtool ioctls and the driver's watchdog. Can you identify which program is doing the ethtool command? That would help. Please re-test with the latest git tree - I believe that we just recently fixed this bug, and I'm almost sure that your kernel does not have that fix. Cheers, Auke