On Sat, 08 November 2014 Bruno Prémont wrote:
> Since I have my Cubietruck, be it with 3.4 kernels or with mainline
> kernels I've been experiencing unstable TCP connections.
> 
> The symptoms are stalling connections (usually SSH connections to the
> Cubietruck) that have nearly no chance at recovering.
> 
> When I tell GMAC to only advertise up to 100Mbps speed the SSH
> sessions do no show above symptoms anymore.

A thread seen on LKML and ARM/NetDev that might also point to the
cause of this trouble:
  stmmac: potential circular locking dependency
  http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg374256.html

Bruno


> If it's important, my setup is:
> 
>           100Mbps            1Gbps
> Laptop  ----------- Switch --------- Cubietruck
> 
> 
> 
> Any idea what the cause might be and how to fix it?
> 
> 
> When running wireshark on the laptop there is only silence when the
> SSH session is stalled. Just prior to stalling Wireshark mentions
> one missed packet (previous segment not captured) and no more packets
> after this.
> 
> I've not yet had the opportunity to perform a tcpdump capture on the
> Cubietruck side (not installed yet).

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