Fw: [Bug 57711] New: RTL-8110SC/8169SC driver hangs on 1G mode

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2013-05-07 16:09:21


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Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 00:32:28 -0700
From: "bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org" <redacted>
To: "stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: [Bug 57711] New: RTL-8110SC/8169SC driver hangs on 1G mode


https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57711

           Summary: RTL-8110SC/8169SC driver hangs on 1G mode
           Product: Networking
           Version: 2.5
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: shemminger@linux-foundation.org
        ReportedBy: fojtik@penguin.cz
        Regression: No


The ethernet driver is rock stable on 10M/100M modes. 

1G mode causes ethernet device freezing. But everything else seems to continue
working. I am not alone who is facing this problem.

Here is another desperate guy:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=62789

It looks like drop packet count starts to increase and the device is not able
to receive packet. All packets are dropped.
---------------------------------------------------------
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A9:F4:01  
          inet addr:10.23.202.49  Bcast:10.23.202.55  Mask:255.255.255.248
          inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea9:f401/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15642592 errors:0 dropped:251658225 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18904013 errors:0 dropped:92 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1555731278 (1483.6 Mb)  TX bytes:1855203093 (1769.2 Mb)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xc800 
---------------------------------------------------------

It seems to be different kind of bug than this one:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16276

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