Subject: Re: tg3 timeouts with 2.6.17-rc6

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:27:32 -0700

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 02:05 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Michael Chan <[email-masked]> writes:
> > Please try turning TSO off to see if it makes a difference:
> >
> > ethtool -K eth0 tso off
> 
> Seems to work fine with TSO disabled.
> 
Thanks for the information. We'll look into it. If possible, please send
me (using private email) an ethereal trace of a sample of the packets
sent by the tg3 chip right before the NETDEV_WATCHDOG timeout.

In the meantime, I wonder if we should disable TSO by default on the
5780 chip for 2.6.17.