>-----Original Message----- >From: `VL [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:49 PM >To: Dave, Tushar N >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 (pci): TX unit hang > >On 24.10.2012 02:04, Dave, Tushar N wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: `VL [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:35 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [E1000-devel] e1000 (pci): TX unit hang >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Under any significant load the driver starts producing detected Tx >>> Unit hang messages and resets adapter, thus networking is not really >usable. >>> By significant load i mean an attempt to download big (>2 Mb) file >>> over ssh. >>> The bug is 100% reproducible. >>> >>> It looks like the problem is known for a long time, but there is some >>> mess with linux e1000 drivers: it looks like kernel contains 7.x >>> version >>> (alive) and there is 8.x version by intel on sourceforge (not >>> maintained and doesn't compile for newer kernels). A lot of >>> suggestions are about intel's version of the driver. >>> >>> Please sched some light on the situation with e1000 in linux... >>> >>> P.S. I've submitted a bug to the linux kernel: >>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47331 >>> it has all additional info you may be interested. >> The Intel e1000 out of box (Sourceforge) driver is end of life and only >in-kernel e1000 driver is supported. >> I can certainly help you with the tx hang issue. I will follow up this >> issue on bugzill@kernel >Thank you! I've understood that sourceforge driver is end of life, but I >want to understand how is it related to what is in the kernel now. Is it >absolutely another driver or it is an older version of this one or >something third?
The difference is one resides in kernel tree and one outside kernel tree. With out of tree driver end of life , all future bug fixes for e1000 devices will only go to in-kernel driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
