Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load

To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>, 572201@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
From: stephen mulcahy <smulcahy@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:08:10 +0100
Message-id: <4BC488DA.3020508@gmail.com>
Reply-to: stephen mulcahy <smulcahy@gmail.com>, 572201@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <1271171107.16881.465.camel@edumazet-laptop>
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Eric Dumazet wrote:

I am scratching my head, but I thought you told me that

ethtool -K eth0 tso off

ethtool -K eth0 tx on

was working ?


No, sorry for the confusion.

ethtool -K eth0 tx off

fixes the problem.


Setting only

ethtool -K eth0 tso off
ethtool -K eth0 tx on

still results in failures.

-stephen

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References:
- Bug#572201: Further queries
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- Bug#572201: Further queries
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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- Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
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