On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:05 +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: > On Monday, 5. October 2009 01:29:39 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 00:15 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso wrote: > > > > Is this a new problem or did it occur with earlier kernel versions? > > > > > > No, it happened also in previous versions. But at least irqpoll/irqfixup > > > worked pretty well. Now this behavior seems to get worsened even using > > > these kernel options. > > > > > > > Can you try to reproduce this without the nvidia or virtualbox modules > > > > loaded? > > > > > > I can but just to make things faster: > > > > > > Jens-Michael, > > > > > > Have you got any nvidia/virtualbox modules running in your host? Just to > > > discard... > > > > The warning message shows all loaded modules, and those aren't included, > > so this question is answered. > > > > I had a look at the code and the values in the 'transmit timed out' > > message, and it seems that the NIC has reported a transmit completion > > but this hasn't been handled. Perhaps another device sharing its IRQ is > > misbehaving and causing the IRQ to be disabled. Please can you send > > more of the kernel log from before the TX watchdog warning? Also, if > > this happens again, please send the contents of /proc/interrupts. > > /proc/interrupts: > CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 42 0 IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 0 82 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 > 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi > 14: 0 109 IO-APIC-edge ide0 > 17: 5 581 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci > 18: 350432 19112694 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1 > 20: 6365 143067 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_via > 21: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb2, > uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5 > 23: 150373 6348653 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth2 [...]
OK, that seems to rule out my first hypothesis. Could you try adding 'noapic' to the kernel command line? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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