Subject: Re: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

From: "Kok, Auke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:29:17 -0800

Bernd Schubert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I can't login to one of our servers and just got this in an ipmi sol
> session:
> 
> [18169.209181] e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang
> [18169.209183]   Tx Queue             <0>
> [18169.209184]   TDH                  <e3>
> [18169.209185]   TDT                  <e3>
> [18169.209186]   next_to_use          <e3>
> [18169.209187]   next_to_clean        <bd>
> [18169.209188] buffer_info[next_to_clean]
> [18169.209189]   time_stamp           <10043e4d2>
> [18169.209190]   next_to_watch        <be>
> [18169.209191]   jiffies              <10043e6f6>
> [18169.209192]   next_to_watch.status <1>
> [18169.256978] e1000: eth2: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang
> [18169.256979]   Tx Queue             <0>
> [18169.256980]   TDH                  <de>
> [18169.256982]   TDT                  <de>
> [18169.256983]   next_to_use          <de>
> [18169.256984]   next_to_clean        <bc>
> [18169.256985] buffer_info[next_to_clean]
> [18169.256986]   time_stamp           <10043e511>
> [18169.256987]   next_to_watch        <bd>
> [18169.256988]   jiffies              <10043e701>
> [18169.256989]   next_to_watch.status <1>
> 
> This is with 2.6.22.18. Is there any chance to recover the system? For some
> reasons I would prefer not to reboot now.

if that's all you have then it was false alarm. there should be a 'netdev timeout
- link reset' following those messages. can you send some more context on those
messages?

in real tx hang cases, the hardware is reset within 2 seconds, and everything
continues as normal.

Auke