I started noticing dropped packets on the RTL8139 eth device I have in
the same box as my PVR350 a few weeks ago (Shuttle ZEN, w/ 2.53GHz
Celeron D). I don't know if it was happening pre 0.3.8 but it's likely
it's been happening for a while.
I just switched the RTL driver from using PIO to MMIO (the default is
PIO in FC3 kernel) to see if it made any difference - but no. Still
dropping packets. I also tried preempt - but again, dropped packets.
This box is only running MythTV with a hauppauge PVR350 and serial IR
blaster. I have no usb or firewire devices attached:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 2050381 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 12 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 113 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 6589 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 35787 IO-APIC-edge ide1
169: 1 IO-APIC-level acpi
177: 987425 IO-APIC-level eth0, ATI IXP
193: 616179 IO-APIC-level ivtv0, ehci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2,
ohci_hcd:usb3
201: 2 IO-APIC-level ohci1394
NMI: 0
LOC: 2050485
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
I haven't seen ethernet device overruns in Linux for at least a decade...
My video filestore is via NFS over 100mbit wired link.
Is the ivtv driver disabling interrupts for too long a period?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uptime
23:04:38 up 31 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.14, 0.18
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:1B:B3:BA:6E
inet addr:192.168.0.6 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:1bff:feb3:ba6e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:385360 errors:9 dropped:9 overruns:9 frame:0
TX packets:590103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:167152045 (159.4 MiB) TX bytes:798148176 (761.1 MiB)
Interrupt:177 Base address:0xe000
Cheers,
Wilf.
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