Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-02 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, Next time sky2 hangs on me I'll try to reset the PHY and see if that helps. I can usually trigger the hang by doing a couple of ifconfig up/down on the interface, though I'm not getting any error message from the driver when that happens. same for me. In dmesg is absolut nothing. I

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Sam, Is this heavy Tx load (ie your watching movie from mac mini). or Rx load (you are watching movie on mac mini). it's inbound (Rx) traffic. Watching a Movie, git pull from linus, or scp kernel tar tree from my laptop to my mac mini. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Stephen, It was intentional in 2.6 to allow interfaces to be hot-removed. Remember with Internet protocols there is no hard binding (normally) between address and device and connections should not go down if link fails. of course. That makes sense. I just wondered when the change in

sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, I have a sky2 network card in my intel mac mini. It stops working when I do havy network load like watching a divx over http/sshfs. However if I remove the driver module and load it again it works and even the tcp connection doesn't get shutdown. I automated the above procedure using a

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Fagyal, - a previously suggested fix - passing idle=poll to the kernel - did not work for me at the end same for me. I tried the two module parameters and the kernel parameter: pci=nomsi sky2.disable_msi=1 sky2.idle_timeout=1000 - the locks I have happen very periodically (somewhere

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Stephen, I can reproduce the problem now (on mac mini). Interestingly it seems to whack the whole ethernet switch when it happens. wow. I have Linksys wrt54g has 'ethernet switch' and my Snom 320 VoIP phone still works when the mini network card goes down. On the other side the wrt54g

Re: [PATCH] IPV6 : segmentation offload not set correctly on TCP children

2006-08-25 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Stephen, thanks for the fix, it fixes the problem for me. I closed the bug. On which hardware did you reproduce the bug and how did you found it? Did you use git bisect? Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: sky2 doesn't receive any packages after I ssh in via ipv6 and edit a file in vim (reproducable)

2006-08-21 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, Is this fix in your version? http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg18603.html I put this one in and recompiled and I am *still* able to reproduce the problem. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message

Re: sky2 doesn't receive any packages after I ssh in via ipv6 and edit a file in vim (reproducable)

2006-08-21 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, [resent because forget to CC netdev ] Something is happening long before you start doing ipv6. The parity error's mean that the PCI transfers are going south. The driver might be better to just shut it self off after that. I can ssh off the machine for days. But

IBM (Lenovo) T60: e1000 driver high latency

2006-07-31 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, [ resend because .config and the used kernel version was missing ] Linux Kernel Version: Linus Vanilla Tree; .config attached. I recently aquired a Lenovo (IBM) T60 with a e1000 network card. I experience high latency with this networkcard: Pings last upto 1 second where the ping

Re: IBM (Lenovo) T60: e1000 driver high latency

2006-07-31 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Auke, CONFIG_IRQBALANCE=y thanks for the feedback. The behaviour improoved. In my first tests it wasn't so good. But now it seems perfect: (thinkpad) [~] ping 131.188.30.102 PING 131.188.30.102 (131.188.30.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 131.188.30.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64

IBM (Lenovo) T60: e1000 driver high latency

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, I recently aquired a Lenovo (IBM) T60 with a e1000 network card. I experience high latency with this networkcard: Pings last upto 1 second where the ping should be around 25 ms. I googled a bit and found the following: - Enable NAPI, which didn't worked for me. 64 bytes from

Re: sky2 1.3-rc1

2006-05-05 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/sky2-1.3-rc1.tar.bz2 v0.15: 64 bytes from 10.0.0.138: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.467 ms v1.3-rc1: 64 bytes from 10.0.0.138: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=32.9 ms I can't confirm this. For me it is just perfect: 64 bytes from 89.106.66.1: