Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: Problems with sky2 driver. | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:53:03 -0700 |
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:38:29 -0400 Todd Showalter <tshowalter@silverbirchstudios.com> wrote:
> I've been having trouble with the sky2 driver. It appears to work > most of the time, but it will quite often wedge during transfers. The > 2.6.17.* kernels actually seem worse than 2.6.16.19, but none of them > work perfectly. > > What typically happens is that after working perfectly for a while, > existing net connections hang, and subsequent net connections don't > seem to start at all. firefox gets stuck with a bunch of half-loaded > pages, for instance, and I've watched an scp of a large file to a > colleague's machine stall and remain stalled. > > Once the machine is behaving this way, a reboot is the only way I > have found of recovering it. > > We have two identical machines here that are both behaving this > way, so I'm assuming it's not a hardware problem per se. The machines > are Intel Pentium D 940 (3GHz) processors. They have ASUS P5LD2 > motherboards, with builtin Marvell PCIe 88E8053 gigabit ethernet > controllers. > > I'm not running any binary modules; it's an untainted kernel. I'm > running a Gentoo system, but I'm using the vanilla-sources kernel (ie: > a pure kernel.org release, not the Gentoo-specific patched version). > > What can I do to help solve this?
To find out where to report problems on a specific device, look in the MAINTAINERS file. I developed and maintain that driver. Also, the mailing list for network drivers is netdev@vger.kernel.org
There is a receive problem that shows up under load, that is fixed in the latest version (2.6.18 git), the patch is queued for the stable tree as well.
--- sky2.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c 2006-07-17 06:02:27.000000000 -0700 +++ sky2/drivers/net/sky2.c 2006-07-17 06:06:56.000000000 -0700 @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ #include "sky2.h" #define DRV_NAME "sky2" -#define DRV_VERSION "1.4" +#define DRV_VERSION "1.5" #define PFX DRV_NAME " " /* @@ -2204,9 +2204,6 @@ int work_done = 0; u32 status = sky2_read32(hw, B0_Y2_SP_EISR); - if (!~status) - goto out; - if (status & Y2_IS_HW_ERR) sky2_hw_intr(hw); @@ -2243,7 +2240,7 @@ if (sky2_more_work(hw)) return 1; -out: + netif_rx_complete(dev0); sky2_read32(hw, B0_Y2_SP_LISR); - 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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