Not a fix, but a workaround. It's not your gigabit switch either; it's a bug in the driver introduced in 2.6.30...sorry about that. I'm working on a fix now that should be submitted upstream in the next few days.
Sorry for any inconvenience, Bruce. >-----Original Message----- >From: Nix [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:09 PM >To: Tantilov, Emil S >Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [in-tree drivers] freezing e1000e in 2.6.31 >(SMP only? MSI? PAUSE!) > >On 8 Nov 2009, [email protected] told this: > >> On 6 Nov 2009, Emil S. Tantilov verbalised: >>> Also try disabling Tx pause frames: >>> ethtool -A fastnet tx off autoneg off >> >> Trying that now. No freezes yet, but I haven't really given it long >> enough. > >I just did a large number of kernel-build-and-installs with frame >pointers over NFS over the errant link. No problems at all. > >I think we can say this fixes it (works around it?) > >Does this implicate the gigabit switch I'm talking to, or is it a kernel >bug? (It looks like the cheap Realteks at the other ends of this link >don't support pause frames at all: at least ethtool -a gives >-EOPNOTSUPP, but maybe they simply can't be turned off... hm, r8169.c >vaguely suggests that it supports them but can't turn them off without >source hacking.) > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30- >Day >trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >on >what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >_______________________________________________ >E1000-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
