From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933851AbXCUWBf (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:01:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933286AbXCUWBe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:01:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45915 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932223AbXCUWBe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:01:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4601AB37.7070302@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:01:27 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: sky2 still broken in 2.6.20.3 References: <4601950D.5000503@redhat.com> <20070321144052.02eb2ac7@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20070321144052.02eb2ac7@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:26:53 -0400 > Chuck Ebbert 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