From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751619AbYEKEes (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 00:34:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750710AbYEKEei (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 00:34:38 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41315 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750709AbYEKEeh (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 00:34:37 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 21:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080510.213431.193696750.davem@davemloft.net> To: jesper@krogh.cc Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NIU - Sun Neptune 10g - Transmit timed out reset (2.6.24) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <48258074.7060306@krogh.cc> References: <20080507.141521.193714938.davem@davemloft.net> <482498D5.9060008@krogh.cc> <48258074.7060306@krogh.cc> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jesper Krogh Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:01:08 +0200 > Any good suggestions about the "Transmit timed out" messages. It > currently leads to a system that "doesnt die" but doesnt respond within > 15 minutes of load of the network adapter. It's likely some bug in the driver that hangs the card for whatever reason, which we'll need to work out. > Does the high amount of Context-switches (120.000+ have any influence)? Unlikely. > Should I be able to use TSO? NIU doesn't support TSO.