On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:14:03AM +0100, Jean-Daniel Pauget wrote:
>
> on 2002-12-30, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote :
>
> > Another holiday, another set of tg3 releases.
>
> in my seek for unexpected freeze of my box (not yet figured which
> hardware is involved exactly) I updated to tg3-1.2a and applied
> both tg3-1.2a-00_irqsave and tg3-1.2a-01_mask_rewrite.
> as a result, after working a few seconds the network card freezes, and
> no ifupdown would permit any recovery.
>
> on the other hand, with only the first patch tg3-1.2a-00_irqsave, things
> seems ok and I'm waiting for my machine to freeze... ...or not. (the freeze
> frequency is ~10hours )...
Thanks, please do keep us posted.
I have attached two patches, with accompanying descriptions, that I have
been testing locally on UP and SMP. They are a bit more conservative
than tg3-1.2a-01_mask_rewrite while still addressing the same issue.
Right now my plan for tg3 version 1.3 (next release) is:
tg3-1.2a-00_irqsave
tg3-irq-mask-2.patch (attached), and
tg3-irq-flush.patch (attached)
and maybe the MTU stuff [more on that below]
The first patch, 00_irqsave, is a bit too paranoid for DaveM's liking,
so even though I will to apply 00_irqsave, that area will get further
attention once existing bug reports are resolved.
[Note to DaveM -- tg3_timer is not a fast path, so extra paranoia there
won't hurt]
> though, on your page you mention a fifth patch concerning mtu, as I'm
> running with an unusual mtu of 1452 because of internet over internet
> encapsulation on my DSL, maybe I'm concerned ?
MTU of 1452 should not be a problem. The issue is more of correcting
handling of change-MTU condition that rarely happens.
Jeff
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