Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang Issue

2011-01-22 Thread Stephen Palmateer
just found "Network Adapter Driver for PCI-E Gigabit Network Connections under Linux*" version 1.2.20 Intel's Readme suggests that this will fix the driver generated interrupts. Since our e1000e driver is only version 1.0.2 I'm going to winscp the tarball provided by Intel to the machine and fol

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang e1000e versions: 0.5.18.3-NAPI and 0.3.3.3-k6 with kernel 2.6.28.9

2009-04-20 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Andrey Luzgin wrote: > We have repeating problems on several servers with different versions of > the driver e1000e with kernel 2.6.28.9 (this version because of tproxy > is necessary to us). All servers is IntelĀ® Server Systems SR1560SF with > one additional NIC 82572EI Gigabi

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-13 Thread Corey Wright
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:59:24 -0700 "Brandeburg, Jesse" wrote: > re-added the list for tracking... > > I think I see the issue, you have more than 4GB ram, and it appears that > your system doesn't handle dual address cycles correctly, or our adapter > doesn't work quite right for some reason. >

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Gary Smith
c: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang so, the 4GB patch will only cause a slight increase in cpu utilization. There are no other side effects, and you *DO NOT* have to run the TxDescriptorStep workaround. I think I might just push the change to no

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
are working better, Jesse From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:g...@primeexalia.com] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:45 PM To: Gary W. Smith; Brandeburg, Jesse Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang That was a bad example

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Gary W. Smith
: Gary W. Smith [mailto:g...@primeexalia.com] Sent: Thu 3/12/2009 2:32 PM To: Brandeburg, Jesse Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang Jesse, Looks better. transfering 50GB to/from the server and I'm not getting the errors in the log now.

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Gary W. Smith
of? Gary From: Brandeburg, Jesse [mailto:jesse.brandeb...@intel.com] Sent: Thu 3/12/2009 1:59 PM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang re-added the list for tracking... I think I see the issue, you have

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Brandeburg, Jesse Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang Jesse, Included is the messages log with the debug patch. It only took a couple seconds to get it to trigger the problem even with the modprobe.conf changes. options e1000 TxDescriptorStep=4,4 alias eth0 e1000 alias eth1 e1000

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Gary Smith
sts.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang sorry, go to the home page http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 click Tracker click patches click tx hang debug code (all releases) - 1460945 download the e1000_806_dump.patch, it should apply with fuzz to your e1000 driver directo

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Jesse Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang Excuse my ignorance, but which patches? ;). There's a lot of stuff on the download page. I assume you are talking about the I/OAT driver & kernel patch but I want to make sure before doing i

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Gary W. Smith
Excuse my ignorance, but which patches? ;). There's a lot of stuff on the download page. I assume you are talking about the I/OAT driver & kernel patch but I want to make sure before doing it. > > Mar 11 18:50:01 vcsoaknas01 kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: > Detected Tx Unit Hang >

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Tx Unit Hang

2009-03-12 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Gary W. Smith wrote: > I asked this last week but didn't get a response. I have a supermicro apologies for the slow response. > server with a dual intel nic that uses the e0100 driver. I'm using > CentOS 5.2 and when I do anything network intensive I lose connectivity > for