Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:58:15 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: sky2 hangs |
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I can reproduce the problem now (on mac mini). Interestingly it seems to whack the whole ethernet switch when it happens. > > - a previously suggested fix - passing idle=poll to the kernel - did not > work for me at the end
It is not an MSI or IRQ problem. It is a phy problem (see below).
> - the locks I have happen very periodically (somewhere around every 22-28 > hours), as if the chip would die after a given amount of data transferred; > I know this looks stupid but I thought I might mention it > - I have about 1Mbit/s of (incoming) traffic on this interface: with > short, very high peaks, as there is a MySQL server on the other end, > receiving about 100 queries per second > - unloading the sky2 module totally freezes the computer for me
If you do: ethtool -r eth0 it cause a PHY reset (renegotiation) and clears the problem.
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