Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:46:29 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.23-rc "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out" |
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Karl Meyer <adhocrocker@gmail.com> : > I did some additional testing, the results are: > [0e4851502f846b13b29b7f88f1250c980d57e944] r8169: merge with version > 8.001.00 of Realtek's r8168 driver > does not work, I after some traffic the transmit timeout occurs. > [6dccd16b7c2703e8bbf8bca62b5cf248332afbe2] r8169: merge with version > 6.001.00 of Realtek's r8169 driver > Seems to be the last version to work. I did some stress testing (much > more than the level that was enough to make > [0e4851502f846b13b29b7f88f1250c980d57e944] break) and am currently > using this version and no problems so far.
Thanks for the quick feedback.
Can you try the patch below on top of 2.6.23-rc3 ?
If it does not work I'll dissect 0e4851502f846b13b29b7f88f1250c980d57e944 tomorrow.
diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c index b85ab4a..cdb8a08 100644 --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c @@ -2749,6 +2749,7 @@ static irqreturn_t rtl8169_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_instance) if (!(status & tp->intr_event)) break; +#if 0 /* Work around for rx fifo overflow */ if (unlikely(status & RxFIFOOver) && (tp->mac_version == RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_11)) { @@ -2756,6 +2757,7 @@ static irqreturn_t rtl8169_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_instance) rtl8169_tx_timeout(dev); break; } +#endif if (unlikely(status & SYSErr)) { rtl8169_pcierr_interrupt(dev); -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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