On Mon, Jan 30 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 30 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > If this is a hardware bug, why am I only seeing it now all of a sudden?
> > > I'll try with e1000 drivers from an older kernel on this box now, just
> > > to be sure. Starting with 2.6.14, although I'm pretty certain that
> > > 2.6.15 worked flawlessly as well.
> > 
> > Just copying over e1000/* from 2.6.14 works great, no timeouts
> > experienced. It's scp'ed ~150MiB now, before it threw timeouts before it
> > hit 16MiB even. Rate is about ~800KiB/sec, this is over the internet
> > through my router. This must be a driver bug introduced recently. I'll
> > try 2.6.15 e1000 as well, but as written above, I'm pretty sure the bug
> > only started to show its ugly face after the e1000 updates in
> > 2.6.16-rc1.
> 
> 2.6.15 hangs as well. So: 2.6.14 good, 2.6.15 bad :-)
> 
> I'll stop testing now and live with 2.6.14 until you have something for
> me to try out.

Recompile with 2.6.14 drivers and retest just to be sure - it's
definitely working. I can say that fairly certainly, since the newer
kernels throw up so quickly.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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