On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:36:47AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:00 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm sending this on mostly because it was a bit of a pain to track down, > > > and hopefully it will save time if anyone else hits this while playing > > > with the -rt kernel. It is NOT the right way to fix things, so please > > > don't even think of applying this patch (unless you need it, in your own > > > local tree :-). > > > > > > One of these days when we have time to breath we'll look into fixing > > > this the right way, if someone doesn't beat us to it first. :-) > > > Ted, what tg3 hardware is having this timer related problem? Can you > send me the tg3 probing output?
tg3.c:v3.49 (Feb 2, 2006) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704s) rev 2100 PHY(serdes)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:14:5e:86:44:24 eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[1] Split[0] WireSpeed[0] TSOcap[0] eth0: dma_rwctrl[769f4000] dma_mask[64-bit] 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0301 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17 Memory at efff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device. Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable- The other interesting bit of information is that after networking card goes dead and I do the "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0", the following printk shows up: tg3: tg3_abort_hw timed out for eth0, TX_MODE_ENABLE will not clear MAC_TX_MODE=ffffffff This is from an IBM LS-20 blade. Is this helpful? - Ted - 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