From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bisected regression] Partial breakage of forcedeth driver
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:31:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110726153146.GJ2078@minipsycho.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110726063511.GC2073@minipsycho>
Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:35:11AM CEST, jpirko@redhat.com wrote:
>Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:23:59AM CEST, johnstul@us.ibm.com wrote:
>>On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> commit 3326c784c9f492e988617d93f647ae0cfd4c8d09
>>> Author: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@>
>>> Date: Wed Jul 20 04:54:38 2011 +0000
>>>
>>> forcedeth: do vlan cleanup
>>>
>>> - unify vlan and nonvlan rx path
>>> - kill np->vlangrp and nv_vlan_rx_register
>>> - allow to turn on/off rx vlan accel via ethtool (set_features)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@>
>>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@>
>>>
>>> This commit causes networking trouble for my nForce-based motherboard.
>>> (Details happily supplied if needed.)
>>>
>>> I say 'partial' breakage because networking is not completely dead,
>>> just limping very slowly :)
>>>
>>> The simplest test is to ping any host (in my LAN or on the internet,
>>> makes no difference). The replies to my ping come at very irregular
>>> intervals, ranging from normal to 5-10 seconds or so, seemingly at
>>> random AFAICT.
>>
>>I'm seeing this too. Ping responses phase in and out every 10 seconds or so.
>>
>>Jiri, any thoughts?
>
>Nothing so far. I plan to take a loot at this today. Will keep you guyes
>posted.
Will post patch soon.
>
>Jirka
>
>>
>>thanks
>>-john
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-26 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-24 23:10 walt
2011-07-25 23:23 ` john stultz
2011-07-25 23:37 ` Mike Sampson
2011-07-26 6:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-07-26 15:31 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2011-07-28 13:41 ` Maciej Rutecki
2011-07-28 13:42 ` David Miller
2011-07-28 14:47 ` Maciej Rutecki
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