Re: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-11-07 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:09:25PM -, David Laight wrote: > > > We are seeing complete lockups of the transmit side when using > > > the smsc95xx driver connected to a USB3 port on an i7 (Ivybridge) cpu. > > > These errors are very intermittent - less than once a day, and > > > it isn't actuall

RE: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-10-28 Thread David Laight
> > We are seeing complete lockups of the transmit side when using > > the smsc95xx driver connected to a USB3 port on an i7 (Ivybridge) cpu. > > These errors are very intermittent - less than once a day, and > > it isn't actually clear that they are related to traffic load. ... > I would suggest y

RE: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-10-24 Thread David Laight
> Have you tried the latest stable kernel or the latest -rc kernel? I've built a kernel based on Linus's tree from last Friday, 3.12-rc6 ish. Commented out the trace for short reads - happens all the time. I've not seen an error on a Bo yet, the failure rate is depressingly low. I have had an err

Re: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-10-18 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 04:22:02PM +0100, David Laight wrote: > > It's not too hard. Here's some directions: > > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild > > I can build it easily enough but ... > > Is there a .config file with a sane list of modules anywhere? > (and builtin drivers for disk boot) >

RE: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-10-18 Thread David Laight
> It's not too hard. Here's some directions: > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelBuild I can build it easily enough but ... Is there a .config file with a sane list of modules anywhere? (and builtin drivers for disk boot) The defconfig one doesn't seem to contain enough to be useful, and the allmo

Re: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-10-17 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > Given the difficulty (or rather the infrequency) of reproducing the > > problem I'd like to sort out the failing code path before changing > > kernels so that I can then verify that a more recent kernel fixes it. > > The problem is that -ESHUTDOWN usual

Re: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-10-17 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:30:56PM +0100, David Laight wrote: > > From: Sarah Sharp [mailto:sarah.a.sh...@linux.intel.com] > > Thanks for taking an interest. > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:59:18AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > > > We are seeing complete lockups of the transmit side when using >

RE: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-10-17 Thread David Laight
> From: Sarah Sharp [mailto:sarah.a.sh...@linux.intel.com] Thanks for taking an interest. > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:59:18AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > > We are seeing complete lockups of the transmit side when using > > the smsc95xx driver connected to a USB3 port on an i7 (Ivybridge) cpu. >

Re: transmit lockup using smsc95xx ethernet on usb3

2013-10-16 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:59:18AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > We are seeing complete lockups of the transmit side when using > the smsc95xx driver connected to a USB3 port on an i7 (Ivybridge) cpu. > These errors are very intermittent - less than once a day, and > it isn't actually clear that the