Hi, I'm running a macbook with a Marvell ethernet controller, and I have a lots of freezes when using the ethernet controller under a load of ~100K/s. Since I'm running a 2.6.19.2 kernel, I'm able to get some report from the kernel. Here they are :
Jan 23 09:30:57 cocoduo kernel: [ 662.920000] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jan 23 09:30:57 cocoduo kernel: [ 662.920000] sky2 eth0: tx timeout Jan 23 09:30:57 cocoduo kernel: [ 662.920000] sky2 eth0: transmit ring 493 .. 471 report=494 done=494 Jan 23 09:30:57 cocoduo kernel: [ 662.920000] sky2 status report lost? Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [softlockup_tick+155/208] softlockup_tick+0x9b/0xd0 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [update_process_times+49/128] update_process_times+0x31/0x80 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [smp_apic_timer_interrupt+145/176] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x91/0xb0 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [apic_timer_interrupt+31/36] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1f/0x24 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [_spin_lock_bh+18/32] _spin_lock_bh+0x12/0x20 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [pg0+946878101/1068803072] sky2_tx_timeout+0xf5/0x1d0 [sky2] Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [dev_watchdog+0/208] dev_watchdog+0x0/0xd0 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [dev_watchdog+192/208] dev_watchdog+0xc0/0xd0 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [run_timer_softirq+273/400] run_timer_softirq+0x111/0x190 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [__do_softirq+116/240] __do_softirq+0x74/0xf0 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [do_softirq+59/80] do_softirq+0x3b/0x50 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [smp_apic_timer_interrupt+150/176] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x96/0xb0 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [apic_timer_interrupt+31/36] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1f/0x24 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [pg0+943208348/1068803072] acpi_processor_idle+0x1fd/0x3b9 [processor] Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [cpu_idle+116/208] cpu_idle+0x74/0xd0 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [start_kernel+872/1072] start_kernel+0x368/0x430 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] [unknown_bootoption+0/624] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x270 Jan 23 09:31:06 cocoduo kernel: [ 672.832000] ======================= As most of the time, the keyboard gets locked and the network driver is down, I can get more informations. Here my hardware configuration : Apple Macbook 2GHz (x86, not amd64) 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:07.0 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Unknown device 27a3 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01) 03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61) I hope some fix could be released soon. -- Lionel Landwerlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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
