Thank you for your response. I have sent a request to the author (who also signed off the commit).
Regards, Hans-Kristian Bakke On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 20:16, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Hans-Kristian Bakke wrote: >> This commit fixes a long standing issue with all my servers running >> Intel Server NICs with 82571/2 chips: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=09357b00255c233705b1cf6d76a8d147340545b8 >> >> I use kernel 2.6.32.XX and 3.2.XX and have the issue on both with two >> different server NICs (both in the affected chipset range). >> >> Eksample output from dmesg when the issue appears: >> >> [19185.345835] e1000e 0000:01:00.1: eth1: Detected Hardware Unit Hang: >> [19185.345837] TDH <5c> >> [19185.345838] TDT <5d> >> [19185.345839] next_to_use <5d> >> [19185.345839] next_to_clean <5c> >> [19185.345840] buffer_info[next_to_clean]: >> [19185.345841] time_stamp <1004809ab> >> [19185.345842] next_to_watch <5c> >> [19185.345843] jiffies <100480ab8> >> [19185.345844] next_to_watch.status <0> >> [19185.345845] MAC Status <80387> >> [19185.345845] PHY Status <792d> >> [19185.345846] PHY 1000BASE-T Status <3800> >> [19185.345847] PHY Extended Status <3000> >> [19185.345848] PCI Status <10> >> >> I tried running kernel 3.3 rc-6 a while just to verify and the issue >> dissappeared. >> >> I would be very happy if this fix could at least be backported to the >> 3.2.XX kernel, as this is the kernel selected for the next debian >> release so it will be with us for a long time. > > It would be nice if you could ask the original patch authors and the > driver maintainer (generally the last signed-off-by line) because if > this patch needs other missing patches to work reliably, we have no > way to know that. I'm open to include it into 2.6.32 if it's ACKed. > > Regards, > Willy > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
