> Part of the issue though is that we don't know how reliable that test > was. I believe Derek he hasn't had any crashes, but he wasn't confident > that it had actually resolved the issue.
Previously I thought I could easily & consistently reproduce the crash but the more testing I did, the more I realized that wasn't the case. That's why my confidence was low in that reversing commit 5317d5c6d47e ("r8169: use napi_consume_skb where possible") fixed it. I felt like I needed to do a lot more testing over the weekend to be sure. But, I can now confirm that reversing that commit did not solve the problem. I didn't ifdown/ifup after the crash so the nic eventually recovered on its own I guess. The `ethtool -S` output is: NIC statistics: tx_packets: 5370650 rx_packets: 57340787 tx_errors: 0 rx_errors: 0 rx_missed: 26 align_errors: 0 tx_single_collisions: 0 tx_multi_collisions: 0 unicast: 57332905 broadcast: 6409 multicast: 1473 tx_aborted: 0 tx_underrun: 0 The dmesg log looks the same as before: [95579.984062] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [95579.984142] NETDEV WATCHDOG: enp4s0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out [95579.984224] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:461 dev_watchdog+0x1bb/0x1e0 [95579.984276] Modules linked in: snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic ohci_pci snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep xhci_pci ohci_hcd ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore snd_hda_core usb_common snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry lockd grace sunrpc ip_tables x_tables ipv6 [95579.984354] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.0.0-amd #1 [95579.984387] Hardware name: ECS A75F-A/A75F-A, BIOS 4.6.5 09/14/2011 [95579.984422] EIP: dev_watchdog+0x1bb/0x1e0 [95579.984454] Code: 8b 50 3c 89 f8 e8 3d aa 0a 00 8b 7e f4 eb a4 89 f8 c6 05 e7 1c 6d c1 01 e8 72 4f fd ff 53 50 57 68 78 05 66 c1 e8 25 ad ba ff <0f> 0b 83 c4 10 eb c9 eb 1c 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d b4 26 00 00 00 [95579.986189] EAX: 0000003b EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000800 EDX: 00000103 [95579.986224] ESI: f4cc2264 EDI: f4cc2000 EBP: f4c99f74 ESP: f4c99f4c [95579.986259] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00210296 [95579.986292] CR0: 80050033 CR2: b7c644f0 CR3: 0dfd2000 CR4: 00000690 [95579.986325] Call Trace: [95579.986356] <SOFTIRQ> [95579.986389] ? qdisc_put_unlocked+0x40/0x40 [95579.986423] call_timer_fn+0x19/0xa0 [95579.986456] run_timer_softirq+0x337/0x380 [95579.986488] ? qdisc_put_unlocked+0x40/0x40 [95579.986521] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0xcb/0x380 [95579.986555] __do_softirq+0xd6/0x21c [95579.986586] ? __irqentry_text_end+0x18/0x18 [95579.986619] call_on_stack+0x10/0x60 [95579.986646] </SOFTIRQ> [95579.986674] ? irq_exit+0x91/0xc0 [95579.986701] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x56/0xa0 [95579.986731] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xd5/0xdc [95579.986761] ? acpi_idle_enter_s2idle+0x60/0x60 [95579.986790] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x122/0x360 [95579.986821] ? cpuidle_enter+0xf/0x20 [95579.986850] ? call_cpuidle+0x1c/0x40 [95579.986878] ? do_idle+0x1e6/0x220 [95579.986906] ? cpu_startup_entry+0x25/0x40 [95579.986934] ? start_secondary+0x1a5/0x220 [95579.986963] ? startup_32_smp+0x15f/0x164 [95579.986991] ---[ end trace 2e8d77bb3c9d2d45 ]--- Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. Derek