Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (tg3): transmit queue 0 timed out

From: Satish Baddipadige
Date: Tue Mar 20 2018 - 02:11:18 EST


On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Siva Reddy Kallam
<siva.kallam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this didn't happen before but after 4.16-rc1 my tg3 nic stops for
>> whatever reason and the connection to the machine is dead. It didn't show
>> anything in dmesg until today.
>>
>> The IO pagefaults look like it is trying to access something it
>> shouldn't and maybe that's why it times out.
>>
>> It triggers pretty quickly so I'd call it a reliable reproducer and thus
>> I can test patches... :-)
>>
>> Thx.
> Thanks for reporting this. Somehow, this mail moved to my spam folder.
> Hence, delay in response.
> Looks like this is similar to below issue and it was reported some time back.
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg482757.html
> We are actively working on this. We will soon provide you an update on this.

Hi Borislav,

Can you please test the attached patch?

Thanks,
Satish

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