Bug#322705: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp: tg3 driver stop to send and receive traffic, until the next "ifdow; ifup"
Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp
Version: 2.4.27-10
Severity: important
During the utilization of openafs, the ethernet of the machine
stopped. Doing a ifdown and ifup could recover the NIC, but during
the ifdown usually I could see messages like the nest one:
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=2000 enable_bit=2
This problem is reported by other people with older kernels. I believe
this error is independent of the bug 322606 that happen on other
machine with different hardware and NIC. I will make tests to confirm
if sending only traffic the NIC stops.
This machine could have a problem with SATA controller disks because
when idle the typical line of "vmstat 1" is:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 0 0 522916 48568 403624 0 0 5 33 243 94 2 20 78 0
...
0 0 0 522908 48568 403624 0 0 0 0 234633 41 0 25 75 0
The lspci of the machine is:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub (rev 0a)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port A0 (rev 0a)
0000:00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port B0 (rev 0a)
0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port C0 (rev 0a)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corp. 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB PATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
0000:01:04.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated Lights Out Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:04.2 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated Lights Out Processor (rev 01)
0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:02:02.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:06:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. PCI Bridge Hub A (rev 09)
0000:06:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. PCI Bridge Hub B (rev 09)
0000:0a:01.0 PCI bridge: IBM PCI-X to PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
0000:0b:04.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 64xx (rev 01)
If you need more information, just ask.
Jose Calhariz
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pt_PT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.81.1 tools to create initrd image for p
ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities
-- no debconf information
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