Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2011 23:26:12 +0100 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: [bug?] r8169: hangs under heavy load |
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booster@wolke7.net <booster@wolke7.net> : [...] > it looks OK now - no more "eth0: link up" messages and network hangs any > more. > I've send and received 60 GB to and from the system and the performance > is ~30 MB/s. > I'll keep the system up and running and do some more stability tests.
Wonderful. Thanks for testing.
> The only thing that's missing now is the transfer LED: the yellow link > LED is on, but the green transfer LED is off and doesn't blink.
I have never looked too closely at it. You may experiment with the LEDS0 and LEDS1 bits of Config1 (no warranty). Your chipset would require it in __rtl_hw_start_8168cp - if at all.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c index 6f06aa1..d6243a9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c @@ -4602,7 +4620,7 @@ static void rtl_hw_start_8168bef(void __iomem *ioaddr, struct pci_dev *pdev) static void __rtl_hw_start_8168cp(void __iomem *ioaddr, struct pci_dev *pdev) { - RTL_W8(Config1, RTL_R8(Config1) | Speed_down); + RTL_W8(Config1, RTL_R8(Config1) | Speed_down | LEDS1); RTL_W8(Config3, RTL_R8(Config3) & ~Beacon_en); -- Ueimor
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