[tulip] Re: tulip digest, Vol 1 #541 - 3 msgs

Fri May 24 13:30:01 2002

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> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:25:28 -0400
> From: azafar <azafar@vt.edu>
> To: tulip@scyld.com
> Subject: [tulip] (no subject)
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> After configuring a DLINK DFE-570TX four port card using tulip driver
version
> 0.92pb with Red Hat 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16-22), I get the following error
shortly
> after adding load to the NIC "Too much work during an interrupt,
> csr5=0xf0630040". Error repeats about 10 times every time it
appears.Problem
> occurs at random intervals and appears to be related to network load. I
> attempted the fix "mii-diag eth2 -G 0x8b240000" but did not see any change
in
> the error. Any ideas on the cause of this problem and how to resolve it
would
> be appreciated.....
>
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> Message: 2
> From: John Sutton <john@scl.co.uk>
> Organization: SCL Internet
> To: azafar <azafar@vt.edu>
> Subject: Re: [tulip] (no subject)
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:03:30 +0100
> Cc: tulip@scyld.com
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> I've had this issue with the tulip driver for some years with various
> driver versions, kernel versions and cards but it appears to be entirely
> benign insofar as it does not, AFAIK, result in data loss.  Presumably it
> does cause a slow down because the card suffers some kind of reset?  On
> Donald's advice I do this at startup:
>
> echo 500 1000 2000 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
>
> and _maybe_ this reduces the occurences of the message but certainly
> doesn't eliminate it entirely.  YMMV!
>
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, azafar wrote:
> > After configuring a DLINK DFE-570TX four port card using tulip driver
version
> > 0.92pb with Red Hat 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16-22), I get the following error
shortly
> > after adding load to the NIC "Too much work during an interrupt,
> > csr5=0xf0630040". Error repeats about 10 times every time it
appears.Problem
> > occurs at random intervals and appears to be related to network load. I
> > attempted the fix "mii-diag eth2 -G 0x8b240000" but did not see any
change in
> > the error. Any ideas on the cause of this problem and how to resolve it
would
> > be appreciated.....
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:11:42 -0700
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Organization: Candela Technologies
> To: azafar <azafar@vt.edu>
> CC: tulip@scyld.com
> Subject: Re: [tulip] (no subject)
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> This driver/card only started working for me after the 2.4.8 (or so)
kernel.
>
> Before then, there are various bugs with auto-negotiate and other
> stuff...
>
> Ben
>
> azafar wrote:
>
> > After configuring a DLINK DFE-570TX four port card using tulip driver
version
> > 0.92pb with Red Hat 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16-22), I get the following error
shortly
> > after adding load to the NIC "Too much work during an interrupt,
> > csr5=0xf0630040". Error repeats about 10 times every time it
appears.Problem
> > occurs at random intervals and appears to be related to network load. I
> > attempted the fix "mii-diag eth2 -G 0x8b240000" but did not see any
change in
> > the error. Any ideas on the cause of this problem and how to resolve it
would
> > be appreciated.....
> >
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