From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Francois Romieu" <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
"Rui Santos" <rsantos@grupopie.com>,
"Michael Büker" <m.bueker@berlin.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 17:53:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905101753.35282.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A06D8D2.4010505@googlemail.com>
On Sunday 10 May 2009 15:38:26 Michael Riepe wrote:
>
> Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> > I'm currently testing 2.6.29.1 without any additional patches but
> > with the pci=nomsi boot option.
> >
> > I didn't notice any hickups, yet. I'm running a stresstest on a GBit link for quite
> > some time now. Earlier tests with older kernels and MSI burped earlier.
> >
> > I will do more testing. If it turns out this is stable I will test the same kernel
> > with Message Signaled Interrupts to see if that causes some breakage.
>
> I've had this problem up to and including 2.6.29.2. Currently, I'm
> trying 2.6.29.2 with pci=nomsi, and it's stable so far. With MSI
> enabled, a single high-speed TCP transfer will stop after a few seconds,
> but without MSI, I can run four simultaneous transfers to two different
> hosts without a single hickup.
>
> It seems to me that this particular chip really doesn't like MSI.
I can confirm this. I tried with msi enabled and it starts breaking
after a few seconds of heavy transfers. Disabling MSI results in a reliable connection.
Maybe we should disable MSI as temporary workaround for affected chips?
--
Greetings, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-10 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-04 17:28 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too Michael Büker
2009-03-04 22:43 ` Francois Romieu
2009-03-06 0:17 ` Michael Büker
2009-03-08 10:27 ` Tom Weber
2009-03-10 5:42 ` Tom Weber
2009-03-09 12:07 ` Rui Santos
2009-03-13 18:29 ` Rui Santos
2009-03-16 13:07 ` Rui Santos
2009-03-22 21:12 ` Francois Romieu
2009-03-22 21:19 ` Michael Buesch
2009-03-22 22:00 ` Francois Romieu
2009-03-22 22:09 ` Michael Buesch
2009-03-22 22:27 ` Francois Romieu
2009-03-22 22:38 ` Michael Buesch
2009-03-23 11:47 ` Michael Buesch
2009-03-23 12:47 ` Michael Buesch
2009-03-23 23:47 ` Francois Romieu
2009-03-24 9:43 ` Michael Buesch
2009-03-23 14:29 ` Michael Büker
2009-03-23 14:57 ` Rui Santos
2009-03-23 15:04 ` Michael Büker
2009-03-25 11:40 ` Rui Santos
2009-04-04 17:50 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-10 13:38 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-10 15:01 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-10 15:10 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-10 15:53 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2009-05-10 16:27 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-10 17:09 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-11 0:29 ` David Dillow
2009-05-11 20:48 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-11 21:10 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-11 21:29 ` David Dillow
2009-05-11 21:59 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-12 20:29 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-14 2:38 ` David Dillow
2009-05-14 18:37 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-14 19:14 ` David Dillow
2009-05-14 19:42 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-23 1:29 ` [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts David Dillow
2009-05-23 9:24 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-23 14:35 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-23 14:44 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-23 15:01 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-23 16:40 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-23 14:51 ` David Dillow
2009-05-23 16:12 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-23 16:45 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-23 16:46 ` David Dillow
2009-05-23 16:50 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-23 16:53 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-23 17:03 ` David Dillow
2009-05-24 21:15 ` Francois Romieu
2009-05-24 22:55 ` David Dillow
2009-05-26 5:55 ` David Miller
2009-05-26 18:22 ` Michael Buesch
2009-05-26 21:52 ` David Miller
2009-05-26 22:14 ` David Miller
2009-05-26 22:40 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-26 22:43 ` David Miller
2009-05-26 23:10 ` David Miller
2009-05-27 16:19 ` Michael Buesch
2009-06-16 19:32 ` Rui Santos
2009-08-21 20:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-21 21:22 ` Michael Riepe
2009-08-21 22:59 ` David Dillow
2009-08-21 23:34 ` David Dillow
2009-08-22 0:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-22 11:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-22 12:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-22 20:43 ` David Dillow
2009-08-23 17:17 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-08-23 17:43 ` Michal Soltys
2009-08-23 17:54 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-08-24 2:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-25 0:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-25 2:59 ` David Dillow
2009-08-25 20:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-25 20:40 ` David Dillow
2009-08-25 21:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-25 21:46 ` David Dillow
2009-08-25 22:19 ` Francois Romieu
2009-08-26 3:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-26 7:58 ` [PATCH] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-26 13:56 ` David Dillow
2009-08-26 13:59 ` David Dillow
2009-08-26 20:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-26 21:30 ` Francois Romieu
2009-08-26 21:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-27 5:24 ` Francois Romieu
2009-08-27 5:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-27 23:20 ` Francois Romieu
2009-08-28 1:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-28 1:29 ` David Dillow
2009-08-30 20:37 ` Francois Romieu
2009-08-30 20:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-01 3:33 ` David Dillow
2009-09-01 9:20 ` Francois Romieu
2009-08-25 21:37 ` [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-25 21:54 ` David Dillow
2009-08-25 23:11 ` Francois Romieu
2009-05-12 11:10 ` 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too Krzysztof Halasa
2009-05-12 21:45 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-13 6:11 ` Francois Romieu
2009-05-13 6:27 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-13 19:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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