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Commit 1519e57f authored by Francois Romieu's avatar Francois Romieu
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r8169: RxFIFO overflow oddities with 8168 chipsets.



Some experiment-based action to prevent my 8168 chipsets locking-up hard
in the irq handler under load (pktgen ~1Mpps). Apparently a reset is not
always mandatory (is it at all ?).

- RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12
- RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_25
  Missed ~55% packets. Note:
  - this is an old SiS 965L motherboard
  - the 8168 chipset emits (lots of) control frames towards the sender

- RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_26
  The chipset does not go into a frenzy of mac control pause when it
  crashes yet but it can still be crashed. It needs more work.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Cc: Hayes <hayeswang@realtek.com>
parent b5ba6d12
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