Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:22:25 +0200 | From | Michael Riepe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts |
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Hi!
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I have what at first glance looks like a problem caused by this > patch. For the last month since upgrading one of my machines from > 2.6.28 to 2.6.30 it has been becomming inaccessible from the > network and I have a few: > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit timed out > > in my logs and a lot soft lockups that always have rtl8169_interrupt > as the thing that is running. I suspect your patch has introduced > a near infinite loop in the interrupt handler and is causing these > soft lockups.
I've been running 2.6.30 for more than two months now and all is fine. But this might be a different chip.
-- Michael "Tired" Riepe <michael.riepe@googlemail.com> X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little
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