Hi,
Heiner Kallweit's patch seems to resolve the problem. The machine was
under high disk and network io pressure today and networking was
perfectly stable.
Bye,
David Arendt
On 9/25/18 11:03 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 19.09.2018 06:12, David Arendt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the patch.
On 25.09.18 23:03, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
It seems that all chip versions from 34 (= RTL8168E-VL) with the
exception of version 39 (= RTL8106E, first sub-version) need
bit TXCFG_AUTO_FIFO.
And indeed, due to reordering of calls this bit is overwritten.
Following patch moves setting the bit from
On 19.09.2018 18:34, David Arendt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the networking problem did not occur for 12 hours now, so I think this
> patch resolved the problem.
@Heiner:
It seems that the regression was introduced by your
commit 4fd48c4ac0a0 ("r8169: move common initializations to tp->hw_start").
Will yo
