Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:18:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
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cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mcarlson@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: tg3 stops working when NFS is involved
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On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Christian Kujau wrote:
> anything else - so, I figure it's not a client problem. And I'm not sure 
> if it's NFS problem either, because restarting the NFS server doesn't do 
> anything, I really have to rmmod/modprobe the tg3 module. OTOH, I cannot 
> reproduce this without NFS: running e.g. iperf (TCP, UDP) did not trigger 
> it.

Just tested with Samba - after a few megabytes of transmitted data, tg3 stops 
working, with no messages printed in the kernel log :-\

I don't know why iperf does not trigger it though....

Christian.
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