>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nix [mailto:n...@esperi.org.uk]
>Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:24 PM
>To: Allan, Bruce W
>Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 82754L spontaneous freeze networking woes continue 
>in
>2.6.37
>
>On 31 Jan 2011, Bruce W. Allan spake thusly:
>
>>>Because lspci simply reads the PCI configuration space (IIRC), I doubt it
>>>is reporting incorrect information.  The e1000e driver uses the kernel
>>>API to disable ASPM (when CONFIG_PCIEASPM is enabled in the kernel config
>>>otherwise it writes directly to the PCI configuration space to disable
>>>ASPM).  Assuming your kernel config has CONFIG_PCIEASPM enabled, my guess
>>>at this point would be there is something broken in the kernel.  With ASPM
>>>L0s enabled, the 82574 (and other parts supported by the driver) will most
>>>definitely have issues, so we need to find out what is broke and fix it.
>>
>> Since it does appear to be a problem with the kernel, a brute force method
>> to work around the issue is to manually disable ASPM (I suggest first try
>> disabling only ASPM L0s) using setpci.  If disabling ASPM L0s is not enough
>> then disable ASPM L1 in both the 82574 and upstream PCI bridge.
>
>I'm not so sure anymore. In 2.6.35.4, everything works -- but in 2.6.35.4,
>the lspci output is *exactly the same*, i.e. even there lspci claims that
>ASPM L0s and L1 are enabled. This seems unlikely, since even if the L0s/L1
>state persists across a poweroff, the problem disappears upon a simple
>reboot into 2.6.35.4, and does not recur in that kernel release.

Which kernel versions?  The above mentioned are all the same???

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