GT64260 ethernet driver - long term stability?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Bill Fincke wrote:
> Has anyone exercised the gt64260_eth.c driver (from the MontaVista
> BK tree) for any length of time?  I ported it and have been using
> it successfully for several weeks, but find that it can't sustain
> continuous file transfers for more than a few hours.
>
> I'm running a loop with ftp putting/getting a 24-MB file to a remote
> Linux system, and find that after a few hours, the "put" times out.
> It happens on any of the 3 ports, and to/from several different
> systems (G4 Mac or PC).  I run the test on the same system through
> a I82559 chip and it runs all weekend.
>
> The only clue I have it that the driver reports a flurry of RX CRC
> errors when the timeout occurs.  After ftp quits, I can ping the
> remote system, but the RX packets seem to be mismatched with the
> TX (ping reports once a second, but instead of ~100 usec transit
> time, it reports 1.000 sec, or 2.000 sec, or 3.000 sec, as if it's
> getting RX packets that are 1, 2, 3 seconds old).

The n-seconds ping times mean that the driver and the hardware got out-of-sync
w.r.t. the current entry in the ring buffer.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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