Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:04:17 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible Suspend to Ram bug?
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On Wed 2009-07-15 05:45:14, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On Wed July 15 2009, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > I'll try with debian's 2.6.30 first. But there's a small issue with
> > > that, .30 and .31 seem to have some performance regressions according to
> > > sites like phoronix.
> >
> > You know, there are lies, then horrible lies, then benchmarks, and
> > benchmarks done wrong.
> >
> > Just do your own measurements under your particular workload, and if you
> > see any performance regression, just report it.
> 
> The benchmarks they run are pretty much what I'd do to test, so I'd more than 
> likely get the same results, and waste a bunch of time.

So rather you expect us to waste a bunch of time?

> 2.6.30 did seem to fix the ssd error. but the first time I suspended, my r8169 
> decided to flip out. I had to rmmod and modprobe it to get the network back 
> up.
> 
> [  867.780034] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [  867.780165] WARNING: at 
> /home/blank/debian/kernel/tmp/linux-2.6-2.6.30/debian/build/source_amd64_none/net/sched/sch_generic.c:226 
> dev_watchdog+0xc7/0x164()
> [  867.780373] Hardware name: GA-MA790FXT-UD5P
> [  867.780488] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1 (r8169): transmit timed out
> [  867.780610] Modules linked in: nvidia(P) powernow_k8 cpufreq_conservative 
> cpufreq_stats cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave nfsd exportfs nfs lockd 
> fscache nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc it87 hwmon_vid adt7473 firewire_sbp2 loop 
> snd_hda$
> [  867.785472] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P

....and some more.


> At this point I was getting repeated "link up" messages and even though 
> ifconfig said the network was up, there was no actual connectivity. as 
> mentioned only rmmod+modprobe of r8169 fixed the problem. It doesn't seem to 
> happen often though.

Reproduce it without taints, then youu can report a regression in network...

									Pavel
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