From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 18:09:47 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Francois Romieu Cc: Holger Hoffstaette , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: r8169 on 3.8.13, 3.9.2, 3.10-rc1, was Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review 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-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20130515061401.GA4382@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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, and > > 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 yet. > > Please note: > - if you don't use a 8168evl (check your dmesg for the XID line emitted > 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 though > disabled by default in the vanilla driver, see ethtool -k eth0, > ethtool -K eth0 tx on sg on)), you are not the experiencing the same > 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 > > 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. > > -- > Ueimor Thanks for the detailed comments, looks as if my intermittent problem is something else. ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce