Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:54:17 -0500 (EST) | From | Christopher Allen Wing <> | Subject | Re: Softnet/eepro100 driver conversion bug in 2.3.43pre8? |
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Simon:
> Well, I've also seen the timeout problem on 2.2 on one of our routing > boxes with 4 eepro100s, but it usually only occurred with high loads and > not out of the blue with a really low load. The patch that went into 2.2 > did indeed fix it.
I don't have any machines under any sort of real load, which may be why I never saw a problem in 2.2.
> The timeout I saw on 2.3.43pre8 happened with light > (but I suppose perhaps bursty) load, which is why I was assuming it might > be a different problem.
Hmm, most of the 2.3 timeouts I saw occurred when I saturated the 10BaseT doing a scp to another machine. Occasionally, though, it did timeout in the absence of any considerable traffic.
> It took about an hour to show after booting pre8, whereas I've never > seen the problem before and I've been playing MP3s via NFS similarly > with 2.3 kernels and the same card for at least 6 months now.
That's interesting-- you probably have a different revision eepro100 than I do, though. Mine are onboard old Intel PR440FX dual PPro motherboards.
> Perhaps the softnet changes are exposing the timeout problem more easily > now.
That could likely be the case. I know nothing about the driver so I shouldn't speculate :)
> Oh, also, the 2.2 timeout would make the card die until the module was > reinserted or the interface downed and upped again. Each time it has > happened here it has recovered after a few seconds (which is good :) ).
I saw the same behavior before softnet in 2.3. The network would be down for about 10 seconds while the card reset, but there were no permanent side effects.
-Chris wingc@engin.umich.edu
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