Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:01:27 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: sky2 still broken in 2.6.20.3 |
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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
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