On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:32:17 -0800
Arjan van de Ven [off-list ref] wrote:

to be specific in counts, the data I have so far is:

 count |           guilty           
-------+----------------------------
  1599 | dev_watchdog(sis900)
  1501 | dev_watchdog(r8169)
   280 | dev_watchdog(via-rhine)
   264 | dev_watchdog(cdc_ether)
   213 | dev_watchdog(usbnet)
   192 | dev_watchdog(8139too)
   164 | dev_watchdog(8390)
   158 | dev_watchdog(via_rhine)
   129 | dev_watchdog(ne2k-pci)
   122 | dev_watchdog(atl1)
   102 | dev_watchdog(atl2)
   101 | dev_watchdog(orinoco)

ATL1 isn't doing all that bad in this
regard, although your driver is still a little higher than other
popular cards like tg3, e1000, e1000e etc. 

...And that's what troubles me: the L1 chip isn't what I'd characterize
as "popular" -- it's LOM only, and it's found in only about 25
mainboards that I know of (from voluntary user reports) -- yet its
prevalence in the tx timeout list seems to be quickly rising.

Can you produce a list from your database for me that includes the
kernel version for each of the 122 reported atl1 dev_watchdog warnings?
I'd like to see if I can correlate an increase in the warnings with a
particular change we made.

Thanks.

Thanks.