Transmit timeouts on 440GX Ocotea on 10baseT-HD network

[Eugene Surovegin]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:15:28AM -0700, Wade Farnsworth wrote:
> Hi Eugene,
> 
> I'm seeing some "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out" messages on
> the Ocotea when it's connected to a 10baseT hub, and it's put under
> heavy load.  I'm using the most current 2.6 git tree.
> 
> This can be reproduced by ssh'ing into the Ocotea and running the
> command "ping <host-machine> -A -s 1200", then also doing the same ping
> command from the host to the Ocotea.  The pings will be successful for a
> short time, then all transmits on the Ocotea will stop for a few seconds
> (usually preceded by a few duplicate packets).  Transmits begin again
> once the timeout occurs. /proc/net/dev doesn't report any errors, just a
> few dropped packets.
> 
> Do you know what might be causing the EMAC to stop transmitting in this
> situation?

Hmm, I think this should have been fixed in the latest 2.6. Check 
that you tree has this patch:

	[PATCH] ibm_emac: fix graceful stop timeout handling

It went in on 01 Dec. Although this fix assumed FDX operation for 
timeouts, without collisions. Maybe I was too optimistic thinking that 
nobody uses 10/HDX :).

Try making STOP_TIMEOUT_10 bigger, say twice as big.

If this doesn't help, I'll send you patch with enables some additional 
debugging, so I can check that stop you are experiencing is the same 
problem I had last month.

-- 
Eugene