Re: Forcedeth issues, loss of connectivity. ASUS M2N32-SLI-D w/ AMD64

From: Tobias Diedrich
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 13:32:37 EST


Jeroen Roodhart wrote:

> > Any "me toos" out there, any suggestions?
>
> Big "me too" here. I use this board to run "workstation and home samba services"
> and it seems that under stress, the connection gets lost. Can't put my finger on
> the when/what/why too.

I've seen some issues with forcedeth too, but only with 2.6.20-rc5
and -rc6 as far as I can say. The box stopped receiving packets, but a
"ifconfig eth0 promisc" 'fixed' it.
It happened rarely and I haven't been really able to reproduce it on
demand so far.
Looking through my syslog I think
|Jan 28 22:16:44 melchior kernel: [28411.397053] Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
|Jan 28 22:18:12 melchior kernel: [28488.534330] warning: many lost ticks.
|Jan 28 22:18:12 melchior kernel: [28488.534333] Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging int
|Jan 28 22:18:12 melchior kernel: [28488.534350] rip nv_nic_irq_other+0x2/0x160 [forcedeth]
|Jan 28 22:18:12 melchior kernel: [28488.534352] Falling back to HPET
sounds suspicios.

|Jan 25 18:17:20 melchior kernel: [ 2875.164597] Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
|Jan 25 18:18:57 melchior kernel: [ 2929.230774] warning: many lost ticks.
|Jan 25 18:18:57 melchior kernel: [ 2929.230777] Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
|Jan 25 18:18:57 melchior kernel: [ 2929.230785] rip handle_IRQ_event+0x1a/0x53
|Jan 25 18:18:57 melchior kernel: [ 2929.230787] Falling back to HPET

This is on an ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe.

Right now, it again only works with eth0 promisc, but interrupts I
can at least see interrupts for all three registered eth0 msi
interrupt handlers:

|279: 13239534 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
|280: 2515250 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
|281: 6268650 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
and "sleep 1" later:
|279: 13239635 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
|280: 2515259 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
|281: 6268661 PCI-MSI-edge eth0

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