The following commit has been merged in the linux branch: commit 05af2142d09845de2f4ae34181c72addd72d5ef9 Author: Simon Wunderlich simon.wunderlich@saxnet.de Date: Sat Oct 24 06:47:33 2009 -0700
r8169: fix Ethernet Hangup for RTL8110SC rev d
The 8110SC rev d chip on our board shows a regression which the 8110SB chip did not have. When inbound traffic is overflowing the receive descriptor queue, "holes" in the ring buffer may occur which lead to a hangup until the buffer is filled again. The packets are than completely processed, but the ring remains porous and no packets are processed until the next overflow. Setting the interface down and up can fix the problem temporary from userspace.
For some reason we don't know, this behaviour is not occuring if the RxVlan bit for hardware VLAN untagging is set. There is another "Work around for AMD plateform" in the current code which checks the VLAN status word in receive descriptors, but does never come to effect when hardware VLAN support is enabled. We assume that this is a bug in the chip.
The following patch fixes the problem. Without the patch we could reproduce the hang within minutes (given other devices also generating lots of interrupts), without we couldn't reproduce within a few days of long term testing.
This version contains minor style adjustments and is sent with mutt which will hopefully not destroy the formatting again.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Schmidt bernhard.schmidt@saxnet.de Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich simon.wunderlich@saxnet.de Acked-by: Francois Romieu romieu@zoreil.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net
diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c index 83c47d9..f98ef52 100644 --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c @@ -1029,7 +1029,10 @@ static void rtl8169_vlan_rx_register(struct net_device *dev,
spin_lock_irqsave(&tp->lock, flags); tp->vlgrp = grp; - if (tp->vlgrp) + /* + * Do not disable RxVlan on 8110SCd. + */ + if (tp->vlgrp || (tp->mac_version == RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_05)) tp->cp_cmd |= RxVlan; else tp->cp_cmd &= ~RxVlan; @@ -3197,6 +3200,14 @@ rtl8169_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) }
rtl8169_init_phy(dev, tp); + + /* + * Pretend we are using VLANs; This bypasses a nasty bug where + * Interrupts stop flowing on high load on 8110SCd controllers. + */ + if (tp->mac_version == RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_05) + RTL_W16(CPlusCmd, RTL_R16(CPlusCmd) | RxVlan); + device_set_wakeup_enable(&pdev->dev, tp->features & RTL_FEATURE_WOL);
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