Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-02 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > On 02-02-2007 12:53, Fagyal Csongor wrote: > > Thomas Glanzmann wrote: ... > Is this with this yesterday sky2-tx-recover.patch applied? I mean hung-ups - not ethtool. Regards, Jarek P. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-02 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 02-02-2007 12:53, Fagyal Csongor wrote: > Thomas Glanzmann wrote: ... >>> Next time sky2 hangs on me I'll try to reset the PHY and see if that >>> helps. I can usually trigger the hang by doing a couple of ifconfig >>> up/down on the interface, though I'

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-02 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Thomas Glanzmann wrote: Hello, Next time sky2 hangs on me I'll try to reset the PHY and see if that helps. I can usually trigger the hang by doing a couple of ifconfig up/down on the interface, though I'm not getting any error message from the driver when that happens. s

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
Thomas Glanzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, >> I can reproduce the problem now (on mac mini). Interestingly it seems >> to whack the whole ethernet switch when it happens. I've observed that too, on a cheap DLink switch. Next time sky2 hangs on me I'll try to r

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-02 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, > Next time sky2 hangs on me I'll try to reset the PHY and see if that > helps. I can usually trigger the hang by doing a couple of ifconfig > up/down on the interface, though I'm not getting any error message > from the driver when that happens. same for me. In dm

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Stephen, > I can reproduce the problem now (on mac mini). Interestingly it seems > to whack the whole ethernet switch when it happens. wow. I have Linksys wrt54g has 'ethernet switch' and my Snom 320 VoIP phone still works when the mini network card goes down. On the other side the wrt54g i

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Fagyal, > - a previously suggested fix - passing idle=poll to the kernel - did not > work for me at the end same for me. I tried the two module parameters and the kernel parameter: pci=nomsi sky2.disable_msi=1 sky2.idle_timeout=1000 > - the locks I have happen very periodically (somewhere

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Fagyal Csongor
> Hello, > I have a sky2 network card in my intel mac mini. It stops working when I > do havy network load like watching a divx over http/sshfs. However if I > remove the driver module and load it again it works and even the tcp > connection doesn't get shutdown. I automated the above procedure usi

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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). > - th

sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, I have a sky2 network card in my intel mac mini. It stops working when I do havy network load like watching a divx over http/sshfs. However if I remove the driver module and load it again it works and even the tcp connection doesn't get shutdown. I automated the above procedure using a userl

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Stephen, > It was intentional in 2.6 to allow interfaces to be hot-removed. > Remember with Internet protocols there is no hard binding (normally) > between address and device and connections should not go down if link > fails. of course. That makes sense. I just wondered when the change in

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Sam, > Is this heavy Tx load (ie your watching movie from mac mini). or Rx > load (you are watching movie on mac mini). it's inbound (Rx) traffic. Watching a Movie, git pull from linus, or scp kernel tar tree from my laptop to my mac mini. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:55:32 +0100 Thomas Glanzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have a sky2 network card in my intel mac mini. It stops working when I > do havy network load like watching a divx over http/sshfs. Is this heavy Tx load (ie your watching movie from mac mini). or Rx load (

Re: sky2 hangs

2007-02-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:55:32 +0100 Thomas Glanzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have a sky2 network card in my intel mac mini. It stops working when I > do havy network load like watching a divx over http/sshfs. However if I > remove the driver module and load it again it works and even