Re: Intel CSA Gigabit Bug in IC7-G Motherboards- Affects Windows/Linux

[Justin Piszcz]

> Have you tried running without NAPI? (disable it in your config in the
> e1000 section)

I have always used NAPI, I will test this later today and let you know the 
results with NAPI off, thanks.

Is there anything I need to be aware of using a CSA-based ethernet device 
vs. no CSA?

Thanks,

Justin.


On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:

> On 2/19/06, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Essentially, when you copy large amounts of data across the NIC it will
> > "freeze" the box in Linux (any 2.6.x kernel, have not tried 2.4.x) or
> > Windows XP SP2.
>
> I've heard isolated reports about issues with the CSA connected NIC,
> but we've not been able to reproduce much in our labs and (mostly)
> people haven't been complaining about it.
>
> > If you checkout the thread, it occurs for multiple people under various
> > OS' but in *some* cases if they use ABIT's IC7-G CSA/INTEL driver, they
> > their problems go away.
>
> > In Linux when I used to use the onboard NIC, it froze the box, I did not
> > have sysrq enabled at the time when this happened but frozen I mean screen
> > is frozen, no ping, box is inoperative.
>
> Have you tried running without NAPI? (disable it in your config in the
> e1000 section)
>
> > Nothing pecuilar was ever found in any of the logs or dmesg output
> > regarding the crash.
> >
> > Basically its the first revision of CSA gigabit on a motherboard from what
> > I read in the forums and unless you use ABIT's specially crafted driver,
> > it will crash the machine when you copy either:
> >
> > a) large amounts of data over a gigabit link
> > or
> > b) that death.zip file (unzipped of course) which contains the bad "bits"
> > that are probably seen/repeated when copying large amounts of data
>
> I'll have our lab attempt to reproduce the bug (again) this time using
> the special file.  I can't speak to the windows crash, sorry.
>
> please send your .config, cat /proc/interrupts, dmesg after driver is
> up, whether NAPI is on, what exact steps you use to reproduce the
> problem, what your environment is (i.e. copying to a windows server,
> etc) pretty much follow the instructions in
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html
>
> Jesse
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