Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750785AbWIBEiy (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:38:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750796AbWIBEiy (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:38:54 -0400 Received: from dsl-7-36.cofs.net ([68.142.7.36]:52538 "EHLO www.palei.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750785AbWIBEix (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:38:53 -0400 Message-ID: <000f01c6ce49$affd37e0$3224050a@avilespaxp> From: "Paul Aviles" To: Subject: e1000 Detected Tx Unit Hang Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:38:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2130 Lines: 60 I am getting "e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang" using stock 2.6.17.11, 2.6.17.5 or 2.6.17.4 kernels on centos 4.3. The server is a Tyan GS10 and is connected to a Netgear GS724T Gig switch. I can easily reproduce the problem by trying to do a large ftp transfer to the server. It does not happen if the server is connected to a dummy 100 Mb switch, only when is connected to the Gig switch. I have also tried the options line below disabling tso, tx and rx in the modprobe.conf without any luck. options e1000 XsumRX=0 Speed=1000 Duplex=2 InterruptThrottleRate=0 FlowControl=3 RxDescriptors=4096 TxDescriptors=4096 RxIntDelay=0 TxIntDelay=0 in /var/log/kernel I get the following... Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: Tx Queue <0> Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: TDH <4c4> Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: TDT <4c9> Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: next_to_use <4c9> Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: next_to_clean <4c4> Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: buffer_info[next_to_clean] Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: time_stamp Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: next_to_watch <4c4> Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: jiffies Sep 1 23:53:01 www kernel: next_to_watch.status <0> . repeats the same as above a few times.... . Sep 1 23:53:10 www kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Sep 1 23:53:13 www kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex then the server locks up, no response from the keyboard at all and must be forced down with a power kill. Here is my driver info, driver: e1000 version: 7.0.33-k2-NAPI firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:02:01.0 What else could I check? Regards, Paul Aviles -- VGER BF report: U 0.5 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/