Le mardi 24 août 2010 à 07:51 +0300, Plamen Petrov a écrit :

So far - not so good. :(

After I left the machine, i rebooted once. Then I logged in
via ssh, and turned gro back ON for the tg3 nic - and in the
next 30 minutes - another reboot.

Today I will try to capture a picture of the oops/warning
with my phone camera, because contrary to what you suggest,
Jarek, there are no messages in the system logs.

Hmm... I was thinking adding a call __skb_linearize(), just in case...

diff --git a/drivers/net/8139too.c b/drivers/net/8139too.c
index f5166dc..10928a2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/8139too.c
+++ b/drivers/net/8139too.c

@@ -1696,7 +1696,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8139_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb,
 	entry = tp->cur_tx % NUM_TX_DESC;
 
 	/* Note: the chip doesn't have auto-pad! */
-	if (likely(len < TX_BUF_SIZE)) {
+	if (likely(len < TX_BUF_SIZE && !__skb_linearize(skb))) {
 		if (len < ETH_ZLEN)
 			memset(tp->tx_buf[entry], 0, ETH_ZLEN);
 		skb_copy_and_csum_dev(skb, tp->tx_buf[entry]);