Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le mardi 13 avril 2010 à 16:08 +0100, stephen mulcahy a écrit :
> 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.

OK, thanks for clarification.

Last question, did you tried a vanilla kernel, aka 2.6.33.2 for
example ?