You wrote: > Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [...] > > > I often see freezes when I do much outgoing transfer. I have never seen > > this happening on incoming transfers. When this happens the system locks > > up hard, I don't see anything in the log. Since this is my laptop I have > > trouble debugging it: there is no serial console and debugging this via > > netconsole doesn't look like a good idea. > > Keyboard leds are dead afterwards I guess, right ?
I'm not absolutely sure but I can do a test later today. > If you are experiencing bugs related to networking, I suggest to stay > away from netconsole. It is not funny to analyze several bugs at the same > time. I did not expect anything coming through there, last time I tested even pings were unanswered. Because of this I didn't even try netconsole. > > When I say "much outgoing transfer" this means "several megabytes". If I > > copy out 30 MB I almost everytime get this. I usually copy that much only > > at home when I feed my gentoo server. That host only has a 10 MBit > > connection. Nevertheless I've also seen that on different hosts using > > different files on different protocols (ftp, scp, smb). > > > :o/ > > So it can be reproduced with a simple ftp put of several megabytes of > data completely cached in memory (no disk access) ? I can put it into RAM before next test to be absolutely sure. > > This is the output of lspci for my NIC: > > > > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI > > Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01) > > I have not seen a lot of reports for this one. Either it is perfect or > it is barely used. > > [...] > > > Hm, is there a reason why we don't use MSI here? > > A request for testers was posted (netdev + lk) on 16/03/2007 which > contained MSI code for the 8168. I did not enable it for the 8101 because > it had only received (positive) reports from 8168 users. > > Afair, the RFT got no feedback. I'll dig for it. > > Ah, one thing is missing: I've not tested it with current kernel, latest > > I tested was 2.6.21-rc7. But I've seen this on many previous version, > > although I thought it became better some versions ago. I wont bet on it, > > it might just have been luck. > > You can/should try: > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc2 (patch-kit) > or: > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20070522-2.6.22-rc2-r8169.pat >ch > > If you are fluent with git and you do not mind rebasing, you can try > git://electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com/home/romieu/linux/linux-2.6-out r8169 > > (don't do the initial clone from here, thanks) > > As an option, akpm includes the git branch for you in -mm. I'll take a look, thanks. Eike
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