Re: mass "tulip_stop_rxtx() failed", network stops

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@mch.one.pl>]

jerome lacoste schrieb:
> On 8/23/05, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@mch.one.pl> wrote:

(...)

>>We are running four more machines like that, the only difference is the
>>kernel they are running (2.6.11.4).
>>
>>On some of them, there are serious problems with a network, and they
>>usually happen when the traffic is bigger than usual (i.e., some big
>>software deployment to several workstations, remote backup, etc.).
>>
>>The syslog is then full of entries like that:
>>
>>Aug 21 04:04:30 SERVER-B-HS kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit
>>timed out
>>Aug 21 04:04:30 SERVER-B-HS kernel: 0000:00:06.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed
> 
> 
> I am seeing thousands of tulip_stop_rxtx() failed messages as well
> with 2.6.11. No regular network failure though.
> 
> See http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/110291/flat

This may have something to do with this patch, introduced with 2.6.10 
(see the ChangeLog-2.6.10).
It would explain why I had no problems on ~20 machines with 2.6.8.1 
kernel, and I have this issue on the machines with 2.6.11.5 kernel.



[PATCH] tulip: make tulip_stop_rxtx() wait for DMA to fully stop
	
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@.........com>
	
tulip_stop_rxtx() doesn't wait for DMA to fully stop like the function
call name implies.
	
This was submitted through my employer -- I am not the original author 
of this	patch.  However, I passed it by Jeff Garizk and he expressed 
interest in having it upstream.


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