Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:41:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:41:54 -0400 Received: from klaatu.zianet.com ([204.134.124.201]:20943 "HELO zianet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:40:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3D517A78.704@zianet.com> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 13:52:24 -0600 From: kwijibo@zianet.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020802 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Kuhn CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel BUG at tg3.c:1557 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2106 Lines: 60 I just tried this on a dual Athlon box with two 7850's in it and a 3C996B-T as well. Lucky for me though, this error did not show up. I transfered/received two 800MB files to the RAID and it held up ok. What driver version are you using? Or even kernel version. Steve Roland Kuhn wrote: >Dear kernel hackers! > >I've been chasing this bug now for weeks without further ideas, so please >tell me your thoughts about it: > >On a dual Athlon MP with a 3ware-7850 RAID (640GB RAID-5) and 3C996B-T GE >NIC I can crash the machine with the above BUG message in virtually no >time simply by copying data both ways between the RAID and the NIC. The >BUG message shows that this can happen any time, it doesn't matter if the >interrupt is received in cpu_idle or something else. I tried noapic, but >to no avail. > >Does anybody know about this problem? >How can I get more debugging information? >Can the driver be patched to gracefully handle this situation, e.g. by >resetting the card and trying again? > >What I've found out till now is only that the kernel's and the NIC's view >of the world seem to be inconsistent :-( > >For our application stability is much more important than a few TCP >retransmits... > >Thanks in advance, > Roland > >+---------------------------+-------------------------+ >| TU Muenchen | | >| Physik-Department E18 | Raum 3558 | >| James-Franck-Str. | Telefon 089/289-12592 | >| 85747 Garching | | >+---------------------------+-------------------------+ > >- >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/ > > > > - 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/