Toby,
Nothing can be done without the full re-write of the driver.
The global request_io_lock is slammed into play way to early and release
way to late. You will have to suffer with this flaw until the spin of
2.5. We are talking about a rewrite that is still at least 60 days from
being ready for me to test.
I still have to draft the recovery tools to mirror the disks for the data
lose in the pre-alpha tests.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Toby Jaffey wrote:
> Using 2.4-test10 I got a series of timeout errors on my tulip network
> card (Linksys LNE version 4, 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom,
> Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev 11)). Networking then completely stopped
> working. Restarting the interface with ifconfig fixed the problem.
>
> I am using an SMP kernel, compiled with gcc 2.95.2 on an ABit BP6 (dual
> celeron 500s, 128mb, PIIX4 using DMA).
>
> [log extract]
> Nov 28 04:04:52 twoey kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Nov 28 04:04:52 twoey kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc664010,
> CSR12 00000000, resetting...
> [end]
>
> This has only happenned once so far, I have not been able to repeat the
> problem. At the time, I was simultanously using two cd drives to rip
> audio cds with DMA turned on, also I was using both processors fully.
>
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