Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another useful bit of information is the statistics (ethtool -S eth0). > When there were flow control bugs, they would show up as count of 1.
the driver locked up again, even with msi interrupts disabled and idle_timeout=10. the console message was pretty much as before: kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out kernel: sky2 eth0: tx timeout kernel: sky2 eth0: transmit ring 336 .. 296 report=336 done=336 kernel: sky2 hardware hung? flushing kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out kernel: sky2 eth0: tx timeout kernel: sky2 eth0: transmit ring 296 .. 255 report=336 done=336 kernel: sky2 status report lost? and this is the output from ethtool -S: NIC statistics: tx_bytes: 3092123897 rx_bytes: 546577898 tx_broadcast: 20 rx_broadcast: 4376 tx_multicast: 0 rx_multicast: 459 tx_unicast: 2585993 rx_unicast: 1550758 tx_mac_pause: 1 rx_mac_pause: 0 collisions: 0 late_collision: 0 aborted: 0 single_collisions: 0 multi_collisions: 0 rx_short: 0 rx_runt: 0 rx_64_byte_packets: 850693 rx_65_to_127_byte_packets: 297029 rx_128_to_255_byte_packets: 62116 rx_256_to_511_byte_packets: 28795 rx_512_to_1023_byte_packets: 31357 rx_1024_to_1518_byte_packets: 285603 rx_1518_to_max_byte_packets: 0 rx_too_long: 0 rx_fifo_overflow: 0 rx_jabber: 0 rx_fcs_error: 0 tx_64_byte_packets: 194159 tx_65_to_127_byte_packets: 239961 tx_128_to_255_byte_packets: 48148 tx_256_to_511_byte_packets: 27635 tx_512_to_1023_byte_packets: 95557 tx_1024_to_1518_byte_packets: 1980554 tx_1519_to_max_byte_packets: 0 tx_fifo_underrun: 0 time to try the vendor driver and see if that provides any clues. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html