Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

From: Frans Pop
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 09:04:27 EST


On Tuesday 15 January 2008, David Miller wrote:
> From: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx>
> > kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang
>
> Does this make the problem go away?

Yes, it very much looks like that solves it.
I ran with the patch for 6 hours or so without any errors. I then switched
back to an unpatched kernel and they reappeared immediately.

> (Note this isn't the final correct patch we should apply. There
> is no reason why this revert back to the older ->poll() logic
> here should have any effect on the TX hang triggering...)

s/no reason/no obvious reason/ ? ;-)

Cheers,
FJP
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