RE: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-22 Thread David Mack
. Dave -Original Message- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:05 PM To: Kok, Auke Cc: David Mack; Herbert Xu; netdev@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ? On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:59:59AM -0700, Kok

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-22 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 10/18/2007 01:59 PM, Kok, Auke wrote: David Mack wrote: It appears that the needed e100 fix made it into the Fedora 2.6.23.1-23.fc8 kernel. Boots reliably now. Huge thanks and great work, guys. DaveJ, I didn't push anything upstream. Can you verify this now works? One of our users

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-22 Thread Eric Sandeen
David Mack wrote: Then I got very, very lucky, since I have successfully rebooted 2.6.23.1-23.fc8 four times (zero panics) and this is the first time a 2.6.23 kernel has not panicked on me in months. This does not fill me with confidence in the theory that the panics I've been seeing are

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:59:59AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: David Mack wrote: It appears that the needed e100 fix made it into the Fedora 2.6.23.1-23.fc8 kernel. Boots reliably now. Huge thanks and great work, guys. DaveJ, I didn't push anything upstream. Can you verify this now

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:04:40PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: I included the patch below in the latest build, but I've not had chance to try it on an e100 box yet.. Looks good to me. Thanks Dave! -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

RE: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-18 Thread David Mack
Jones; netdev@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ? Herbert Xu wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:54:33AM -0700, David Mack wrote: Still no joy here. See attached capture. What's really weird is that it shows *two* kernel panics, one in e100_poll

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-18 Thread Kok, Auke
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:05 AM To: Herbert Xu Cc: David Mack; Dave Jones; netdev@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ? Herbert Xu wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:54:33AM -0700, David Mack wrote: Still no joy here. See

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-18 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 10/18/2007 01:59 PM, Kok, Auke wrote: David Mack wrote: It appears that the needed e100 fix made it into the Fedora 2.6.23.1-23.fc8 kernel. Boots reliably now. Huge thanks and great work, guys. DaveJ, I didn't push anything upstream. Can you verify this now works? We didn't put

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-16 Thread Eric Sandeen
Herbert Xu wrote: David Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand the message Dave Jones sent yesterday, the patch you mention *was* applied to the e100 driver in 2.6.23-6.fc8? Nope, he applied a different one which doesn't have the crucial part to disable NAPI polls before

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-16 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:33:15AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Hm... running 2.6.23-6.fc8, I've been through 30+ reboot cycles without a problem. Before, I'd oops every 5 or so times I booted... I now have another NIC in the box, disabled; I don't think that should be affecting anything?

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-16 Thread Eric Sandeen
Herbert Xu wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:33:15AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Hm... running 2.6.23-6.fc8, I've been through 30+ reboot cycles without a problem. Before, I'd oops every 5 or so times I booted... I now have another NIC in the box, disabled; I don't think that should be

RE: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-16 Thread David Mack
To: Eric Sandeen Cc: David Mack; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ? On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:33:15AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Hm... running 2.6.23-6.fc8, I've been through 30+ reboot cycles without a problem

RE: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-12 Thread David Mack
@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ? On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:54:33AM -0700, David Mack wrote: Still no joy here. See attached capture. What's really weird is that it shows *two* kernel panics, one in e100_poll and one in _list_add. Yes that's

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-12 Thread Kok, Auke
Herbert Xu wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:54:33AM -0700, David Mack wrote: Still no joy here. See attached capture. What's really weird is that it shows *two* kernel panics, one in e100_poll and one in _list_add. Yes that's the symptom one would expect from that bug. We really need to

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-12 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:54:33AM -0700, David Mack wrote: Still no joy here. See attached capture. What's really weird is that it shows *two* kernel panics, one in e100_poll and one in _list_add. Yes that's the symptom one would expect from that bug. We really need to apply the same fix

RE: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-12 Thread David Mack
; netdev@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Mack Subject: Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ? On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:10:34AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: Herbert Xu wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:36:38PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: The e1000 changes you reference above

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-12 Thread Herbert Xu
David Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand the message Dave Jones sent yesterday, the patch you mention *was* applied to the e100 driver in 2.6.23-6.fc8? Nope, he applied a different one which doesn't have the crucial part to disable NAPI polls before registration. Cheers, -- Visit

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-11 Thread Kok, Auke
Herbert Xu wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:36:38PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: The e1000 changes you reference above, is this the changeset you mean? commit 416b5d10afdc797c21c457ade3714e8f2f75edd9 Author: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Jun 1 10:22:39 2007 -0700 e1000: disable

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:10:34AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: Herbert Xu wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:36:38PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: The e1000 changes you reference above, is this the changeset you mean? commit 416b5d10afdc797c21c457ade3714e8f2f75edd9 Author: Auke Kok [EMAIL

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-11 Thread Eric Sandeen
Eric/David, the Fedora 8 RPM version 2.6.23-6.fc8 will have this if you want to give it a shot too. It'll be at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/f7.92/ when it's done building in an hour or so. Dave Thanks, I'll give it a whirl this evening. I put a new net card in that

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-11 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:10:34AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: commit 416b5d10afdc797c21c457ade3714e8f2f75edd9 Author: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Jun 1 10:22:39 2007 -0700 e1000: disable polling before registering netdevice this patch actually called napi_disable() in

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:58:27PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Jones wrote: Last night, I hit this bug during boot up.. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/e100-2.jpg This morning, I got a mail from a Fedora user of the same .23-rc8 based

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:36:38PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: The e1000 changes you reference above, is this the changeset you mean? commit 416b5d10afdc797c21c457ade3714e8f2f75edd9 Author: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Jun 1 10:22:39 2007 -0700 e1000: disable polling before

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Jones wrote: Last night, I hit this bug during boot up.. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/e100-2.jpg This morning, I got a mail from a Fedora user of the same .23-rc8 based kernel that has seen a different trace also implicating e100..

e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-09-26 Thread Dave Jones
Last night, I hit this bug during boot up.. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/e100-2.jpg This morning, I got a mail from a Fedora user of the same .23-rc8 based kernel that has seen a different trace also implicating e100.. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/e100.jpg It may be that the two

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-09-26 Thread Kok, Auke
Dave Jones wrote: Last night, I hit this bug during boot up.. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/e100-2.jpg This morning, I got a mail from a Fedora user of the same .23-rc8 based kernel that has seen a different trace also implicating e100.. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/e100.jpg

Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ?

2007-09-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: Dave Jones wrote: Last night, I hit this bug during boot up.. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/e100-2.jpg This morning, I got a mail from a Fedora user of the same .23-rc8 based kernel that has seen a different trace