dirty entry messages

[Ravi Swamy]

Hello, I have some D-Link 530TX+ cards with Realtek 8139 (rev 16) chips.

I am running kernel 2.3.18 with driver version 1.07.  When transferring
over large files (35MB) I ocassionally get "dirty entry" messages such as:

messages:Sep 13 15:13:48 helen kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 8111  dirty entry 8111. 
messages:Sep 13 15:17:38 helen kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 5562  dirty entry 5562. 
messages.3:Aug 23 21:42:54 helen kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 7846978  dirty entry 7846974. 

I looked at the source and saw it was in the rtl8129_tx_timeout function
and checked the web page but to my knowledge it is in a bus master slot.
The ftp seems to recover and then continue so it is just a "hiccup" but
I was wondering if this is normal or a bug.

Thanks,
Ravi

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