Re: Strange network timeouts w/ 2.6.30.5

From: Aviv Greenberg
Date: Sun Aug 23 2009 - 15:18:26 EST


On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 03:45:21PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof HaÅasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/e100.c b/drivers/net/e100.c
> index 014dfb6..b610088 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/e100.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/e100.c
> @@ -1762,9 +1762,12 @@ static int e100_rx_indicate(struct nic *nic, struct rx *rx,
>
> if (ioread8(&nic->csr->scb.status) & rus_no_res)
> nic->ru_running = RU_SUSPENDED;
> +#ifndef CONFIG_X86
> + /* FIXME interferes with swiotlb. */
> pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(nic->pdev, rx->dma_addr,
> sizeof(struct rfd),
> PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
> +#endif
> return -ENODATA;
> }
>
> --

Why do you use PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL? From what i get, the device writes and the
cpu reads - so the direction should be PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE. Maybe just maybe the
bi-directionality bites you in the swiotlb case.

> Krzysztof Halasa
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