Re: R8169: Network lockups in 4.18.{8,9,10} (and 4.19 dev)

From: Chris Clayton
Date: Fri Sep 28 2018 - 18:01:07 EST


Thanks Maciej.

On 28/09/2018 16:54, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I upgraded my kernel to 4.18.10 recently and have since been experiencing network problems after resuming from a
>> suspend to RAM or disk. I previously had 4.18.6 and that was OK.
>>
>> The pattern of the problem is that when I first boot, the network is fine. But, after resume from suspend I find that
>> the time taken for a ping of one of my ISP's nameservers increases from 14-15ms to more than 1000ms. Moreover, when I
>> open a browser (chromium or firefox), it fails to retrieve my home page (https://www.google.co.uk) and pings of the
>> nameserver fail with the message "Destination Host Unreachable". Often, I can revive the network by stopping it with
>> /sbin/if(down,up} but sometimes it is necessary to also remove the r8169 module and load it again.
>
> Please have a look at the following thread:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/25/1118
>

I applied your patch for the 4.18 stable kernels to 4.18.10, but the problem is not solved by it. Similarly, I applied
Heiner's patch to the 4.19, but again the problem is not solved.

> Maciej
>
Chris