From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: r8169 hard-freezes the system on big network loads Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:03:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20110915000332.GA13821@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <201108141308.28140.kjun-chen@sambodha.org> <201109112216.33579.brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <20110913081126.GA20022@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <201109142336.17291.brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nic_swsd@realtek.com, Hayes To: Michael Brade Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:48600 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750858Ab1IOAD7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:03:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201109142336.17291.brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Michael Brade : [...] > ok, good news: I did not experience any freeze anymore even though I > transfered 60 GB. And I applied both of your patches and > > - if (status & RxFOVF) { > - rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reset_task); > - dev->stats.rx_fifo_errors++; > - } It should not be necessary to remove this part : the status mask is supposed to take care of it. One of my patches is wrong if this part needs to go away. [...] > > Are the symptoms in any way different or do you still notice more-or-less > > periodic link-up messages and no real network traffic ? > > dmesg looks like this: > > [ 1611.380420] r8169 0000:13:00.0: eth0: link up > [ 1611.995417] r8169 0000:13:00.0: eth0: link up > [ 1612.323050] r8169 0000:13:00.0: eth0: link up > [ 1612.574016] r8169 0000:13:00.0: eth0: link up I will have to figure why there are so much of theses messages. [...] > so yes but what do you mean with "no real network traffic"? I still get > 100 MB/s. 100 MB/s as 100 Mbyte/s on a gigabit link or 100 Mbit/s on a {gigabit / fast} ethernet link ? Thanks. -- Ueimor