Re: [Regression, bisected] Receive failure in et131x.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Dec 29 2009 - 16:06:00 EST


On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:00:05 -0500
Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Continuing the theme from the last release cycle -- my PCI-express
> et131x card (which works in 2.6.32) fails in the latest Linus git. The
> card works at first (DHCP and NFS mounts during bootup are OK) but
> quickly fails once any reasonable traffic is put through it. Transmit
> seems to continue to work after a failure, but receive is mostly dead
> forever -- the occasional frame appears to make it through. The kernel
> log contains many messages of the following form:
>
> et131x 0000:02:00.0: NICRxPkts PSR Entry 1546 indicates length of 12920 and/or bad bi(614)
> et131x 0000:02:00.0: NICRxPkts PSR Entry 1547 indicates length of 27745 and/or bad bi(92)
> et131x 0000:02:00.0: NICRxPkts PSR Entry 1548 indicates length of 30064 and/or bad bi(116)

Thanks - I'll beat that one over the head Jan 2nd and get it back into
order. What setup are you using and at what speed ?

Alan
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