Bug 142088

Summary:	tg3 kernel module patch
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrick Otto <mail>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	blackhawk3008
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199227
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Patrick Otto 2006-07-29 07:41:01 UTC

Uhm, no emerge --info at all. It's just a patch for the tg3 kernel module, because they're bugged like hell. Check URL for more information.

Patch goes here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115056877413890&w=2

Would be nice if someone adds this to the kernel ebuild.

Comment 1 Patrick Otto 2006-07-29 07:44:15 UTC

Aye. Just forgot the problem. oO


NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=2c00 enable_bit=2
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=1400 enable_bit=2
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=4800 enable_bit=2
tg3: eth0: Link is down.

And the link isn't down at all. Check URL for more infos about this bug.

Comment 2 Patrick Otto 2006-07-29 07:45:52 UTC

Spamming. Yay.

Another workaround is:

ethtool -K eth0 tso off

Thanks to satmd.

Comment 3 satmd 2006-07-29 07:46:57 UTC

Possible workaround:
manually disabling TSO
ethtool -K eth0 tso off
(effectively disables link autonegation?)

The patch disabled TSO for those NICs that cannot use TSO and prevents exactly the problem my command tries to work around.

Please include this patch :)

Comment 4 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-29 08:37:34 UTC

*** Bug 142097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Christian Heim (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-29 23:34:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Possible workaround:
> manually disabling TSO
> ethtool -K eth0 tso off
> (effectively disables link autonegation?)
> 
> The patch disabled TSO for those NICs that cannot use TSO and prevents exactly
> the problem my command tries to work around.
> 
> Please include this patch :)

Could you please try 2.6.18_rc2 and see if that problem still exists ? I've just checked both, the netdev-2.6-git and linux-git trees and nowhere is that patch from Michael Chan included.

Comment 6 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-13 02:57:04 UTC

Please test this patch against 2.6.17, it is included in the 2.6.18-rc releases and should be a better fix:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115163090731530&q=raw

Comment 7 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-27 09:03:43 UTC

see comment #6