Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 28542] New: 3c59x.c: Regression since 2.6.36 (incl.), for e. g., TCP stalls on receive

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:39:10 +0000

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 15:09 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 18:55:29 GMT
> [email-masked] wrote:
[...]
> > Dump of kernel source bz2 download being stalled:
> > http://poige.livejournal.com/475372.html#cutid1 (see the bunch of ACKs
> > #5555523).

That's not a stall, that's selective-ACKing (see the ranges listed on
the right of each ACK line).

> > As a workaround I've just replaced drivers/net/3c59x.c with its former
> > (2.6.35.11) version, the connectivity problems are gone now.

This could just be a coincidence.  But it could be that packet loss is
now more likely for some reason.  Does the rx_fifo_errors statistic
increase quickly with the later version of the driver?  (This seems to
be the only receive error type reported.)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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