Kok, Auke wrote: > Wolfgang Nothdurft wrote: >> Hi, >> >> with the new e1000 driver version 7.3.20 the onboard gigabit nic 82547EI >> (8086:1019) doesn't work correctly. >> After transferring about 100 megabytes over a gigabit link the transfer >> stopped and I have to reinit the link either by doing a ifconfig down/up >> or unplugging the network cable. >> The RxIntDelay is set to 0 like described in the docu. Playing with this >> Parameter only increases the amount of traffic to be send and the error >> occurs later. > > have you tried (the default) 8000 ? Do you get the same problem when you > run 2.6.21 with 7.5.5.1 or 7.3.20 ?
With 8000 I can delay the issue, but I thought the default is 0. When I use out of range values the defaults shown are: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:01.0 to 64 e1000: 02:01.0: e1000_validate_option: Invalid Transmit Interrupt Delay value specified (100000) using default of 8 e1000: 02:01.0: e1000_validate_option: Invalid Transmit Absolute Interrupt Delay value specified (100000) using default of 32 e1000: 02:01.0: e1000_validate_option: Invalid Receive Interrupt Delay value specified (100000) using default of 0 e1000: 02:01.0: e1000_validate_option: Invalid Receive Absolute Interrupt Delay value specified (100000) using default of 8 With kernel 2.6.21 the problem doesn't occur, so it seems to be a kernel 2.4 specific issue. > >> This happens also with the 7.4.35 and 7.5.5 driver from the intel side. >> The driver 5.7.6 from kernel 2.4.33.3 and the 6.1.16 from intel works >> very well on this hardware. >> Also other gigabit nics we use didn't have this problem. >> Is this issue already known? > > this is the first time I have heard this issue. > >> Is there any solution yet? > > I'm not that good :) > > Can you file a bugreport on e1000.sf.net and attach the usual (ethtool > -e, dmesg, ifconfig -a, lspci -vv) debugging output and problem > description for us? I'll try to see if I can have our labs setup a repro > case, which might be hard given the adapter type, but we will do our best. done > > Auke > - > 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 > -- Wolfgang Nothdurft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linogate Internet Technologies fon: +49 (0)821 - 25 96 - 0 - 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
