On Thursday 03 August 2006 17:49, Randy.Dunlap wrote: [snip] > > This only shows up with the real-time kernel where timer softirq's run > > in their own processes, and a high priority process preempts the timer > > softirq. I don't really consider this a networking bug, or even > > driver bug, although it does seem unfortunate that Broadcom hardware > > locks up and goes unresponsive if the OS doesn't tickle it every tenth > > of a second or so. (Definitely a bad idea if the tg3 gets used on any > > laptops, from a power usage perspective.) But that seems like a > > (lame) hardware bug, not a driver bug.... > > Interesting. On my Dell D610 notebook with tg3 and vpn, > I have to ping a server on the vpn to keep it alive, otherwise > it disappears soon and I have to restart the vpn. Of course, > this could just be the vpn or some other software problem > instead of a tg3 problem.
Probably. I have an NC6000 with a tg3 and have never experienced link failure problems, even under -rt. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
