2.6.22.5 forcedeth timeout hang

2007-08-23 Thread Mr. Berkley Shands
100% reproducible hang on xmit timeout. Just do a "make -j4 modules" on an nfs mounted kernel source. attached is the messages log berkley -- // E. F. Berkley Shands, MSc// ** Exegy Inc.** 349 Marshall Road, Suite 100 St. Louis , MO 63119 Direct: (314) 218-3600 X450 Cell: (314) 303-2546

forcedeth lockup in 2.6.21.5 and 2.6.22-rc6

2007-06-26 Thread Mr. Berkley Shands
With Centos-5.0/Redhat 5.0 on multiple motherboards (Tyan 2995/ SuperMicro H8DCE) The forcedeth network driver locks up under heavy NFS traffic (32KB frames) such as linking shared libraries. It either gives a register dump on a lock up in the transmit side, or loops complaining about eth0: too m