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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sky2 still broken in 2.6.20.3
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:01:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4601AB37.7070302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070321144052.02eb2ac7@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:26:53 -0400
> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Transmit timeouts and locked-up adapters still occur in kernel
>> 2.6.20.3.
> 
> There is more changes in 2.6.21-rc4 please try that.

Yes, but I have to figure out how to get those to apply to
2.6.20.3. I was hoping you'd do that. :)

> I am still getting reports of timeouts with that code but
> it does recover better. It may be the case that with hardware
> flow control transmits can take an indefinite period so increasing
> the timeout value could help.
> 
>> It looks like the patch that was applied to 2.6.20.2
>> is not enough. Unfortunately that one isn't the same as what
>> went upstream. Looks like it needs to be reverted, then the two
>> upstream patches applied?
> 
> Until, unless the problem is reproducible with my hardware
> there is not much that can be done. I'll add the better recovery
> logic to for next stable cycle, but still not clear what causes
> all the timeouts.

I have a bug report and tester:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227420


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-21 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-21 20:26 Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-21 21:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-21 22:01   ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-03-22 19:18     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 16:43 ` Stephen Hemminger

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