From: java programmer <javadesigner@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: SMP, APIC and networking issues...
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:11:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010831231156.90554.qmail@web14206.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002801c13270$86592680$0201a8c0@home>
Hi all:
There have been some recent posts regarding some
SMP/register corruption bugs.
Searching the archives, there have also been some
reports with both 3com and intel ethernet cards
hanging after an N amount of time, where N = a couple
of days to 2 weeks. That is, the nic's will behave
nicely for some time and then totally hang - are not
even pingable. This happens on SMP machines and is
believed to be caused by some APIC/interrupt issues.
I have seen the exact same behavior on 2.4.7 with
a intel pro/100 ethernet 64 bit PCI nic on a SMP
intel chipset. Stress testing and transferrring
Gbytes of data thru the nic works fine after the
machine is rebooted but after say 3 days, the
card just hangs. (this happens with both intel
supplied and kernel supplied drivers, e100, eepro100)
After the hang, logging in via the console and
saying ifconfig (for eth1, I have also blacked
out the IP address) shows the following:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
00:50:8B:E3:AA:B5
inet addr:x.x.x.x
Bcast:66.37.140.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
Metric:1
RX packets:6232292 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7098591 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2693585563 (2568.8 Mb) TX
bytes:2786888257 (2657.7 Mb)
Interrupt:15 Base address:0x4000
The supposed trick is to boot with a "noapic"
option, since this is believed to be a APIC issue,
not a driver issue (as mentioned, this problem
has been seen for both 3com and intel cards).
Is "noapic" still the recommended approach for SMP
kernels or is it advisable to use 2.4.9 to solve
this specific issue ?
Best regards,
javadesigner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-31 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-30 22:40 [ANNOUNCE] Hardware detection tool 0.2 Carlos E Gorges
2001-08-30 23:18 ` Greg KH
2001-08-31 22:58 ` jeff millar
2001-08-31 23:11 ` java programmer [this message]
2001-08-31 23:38 ` SMP, APIC and networking issues Alan Cox
2001-09-01 20:59 ` Jorge Nerin
2001-08-31 23:23 ` [ANNOUNCE] Hardware detection tool 0.2 Greg KH
2001-08-31 23:46 ` jeff millar
2001-09-01 0:08 ` Greg KH
2001-09-01 10:54 ` Tim Jansen
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