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SubjectRe: NE2000 PCI problems FIXED!
Linus wrote:

> Anybody that still sees interrupt-related problems, speak now or forever
> hold your peace..

Sorry for beeing the bad guy, but i still have cosmetic ones ...


My box is:

Hewlett Packard Vectra XU 5/90C
* 2 90Mhz pentiums
* 64 Mo RAM
* ATI Mach 64 PCI graphic card
* AMD PCnet32+PCscsi ethernet+SCSI controler ON THE MOTHERBOARD
* 3Com 3C900 PCI ethernet controler

The box is very stable under 2.0.33 (AM53C974 driver for SCSI and
PCnet32 driver for the network), but was hard to get running on
the 2.1.x serie (it started to work properly only since 2.1.101 +
Ingo io-apic.c J patch)


So I now basicaly have 4 possible configurations since:
- for the SCSI part, i can use ether the AM53C974 driver or
the new DC390 1.20g driver written by Kurt Garloff)
- for the ethernet part, i can use ether the PCnet32 controler
on the mother board or the 3C900 PCI ethernet card.

The results are the following (with the 2.1.103 kernel):

1) AM53C974 (irq 10) + PCnet32 (irq 9)
Works fine. Yes, you got it :-)

2) DC390 (irq 10) + PCnet32 (irq 9)
Also works fine, but displays hundreds of so messages:
eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f3

These messages appear when the disk used (IRQ 10 very active)
witch seems to generate a few unexpected interrupts on IRQ9
(according to /proc/interrupts report)

Ok, we can suspect the DC390 1.20g driver since it is very
new (not yet included in the general kernel tree), but why
would a bug in a driver handling irq 10 would generate
interrupts on irq 9 ?

3) DC390 (irq 10) + 3C900 (irq 10)
Dead locks.

the messages ares:
scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 3939,
scsi 0, chanel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x00 10 28 24 02 00
SCSI disk error: kost 0 chanel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 26030000

and:
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status c601
eth0: Interrupt posted but not handled -- IRQ blocked by another
device ?
Flags; bus_master 1, full 0; dirty 149 current 149.
Transmit list 00000000 vs. c009aa60.
0: 0c009aa10 length 8000002a status 0000002a
...
15: ...

4) AM53C974 (irq 10) + 3C900 (irq 10)
Dead locks.

In order to run that way, i have to patch irq.c in order to
enable irq sharing because the AM53C974 does not defaultly
allow irq sharing.


From the many tests i made during this long way to a stable
2.1.x kernel, i concluded that what makes my SMP box harder to
get reliable that many other ones is:

1) It is old and so the bios does not provide very accurate informations
(this seams to have been finaly solved by Ingo patches)

2) It is slow, so it is more likely to get overloaded.
About this point, i would suggest to Ingo and Linus to slow down
there
processors if they can.


Hubert Tonneau

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