Re: 1e918876 breaks r8169 (linux-3.18+)

From: Tomas Szepe
Date: Sat Feb 21 2015 - 14:26:44 EST


> > Could Tomas try following fix ?
>
> In addition -- Tomas, on your affected board -- did you try
> turning off gso/tso?
>
> Holger HoffstÃtte mentioned on lkml that his affected r8169 nic is
> stable with xmit_more+bql after disabling gso/tso on the nic
>
> (ethtool -k $dev to display settings, "-K $dev tso off gso off" to
> disable offloads).

They're always off on this NIC (cannot be turned on).

# ethtool -k eth1| grep segmentation-offload
tcp-segmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: off [requested on]
# ethtool -K eth1 gso on tso on
Could not change any device features
# ethtool -k eth1| grep segmentation-offload
tcp-segmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: off [requested on]

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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