Re: r8169 hard-freezes the system on big network loads

Michael Brade [off-list ref] :
[...]

ok, good news: I did not experience any freeze anymore even though I 
transfered 60 GB. And I applied both of your patches and 

-                   if (status & RxFOVF) {
-                           rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reset_task);
-                           dev->stats.rx_fifo_errors++;
-                   }

It should not be necessary to remove this part : the status mask is
supposed to take care of it. One of my patches is wrong if this part
needs to go away.

[...]

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Are the symptoms in any way different or do you still notice more-or-less
periodic link-up messages and no real network traffic ?

dmesg looks like this:

[ 1611.380420] r8169 0000:13:00.0: eth0: link up
[ 1611.995417] r8169 0000:13:00.0: eth0: link up
[ 1612.323050] r8169 0000:13:00.0: eth0: link up
[ 1612.574016] r8169 0000:13:00.0: eth0: link up

I will have to figure why there are so much of theses messages.

[...]

so yes but what do you mean with "no real network traffic"? I still get
100 MB/s.

100 MB/s as 100 Mbyte/s on a gigabit link or 100 Mbit/s on a {gigabit / fast}
ethernet link ?

Thanks.

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Ueimor