Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

2011-03-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ben Hutchings wrote: > It *was* a real bug and you have no reason to believe it is not fixed. Sure, it is possible that 6c2da9c or eb10a781 fixes this. But I really do suspect that it's not fixed. I'd take at least 1:1 odds. > New submitters are expected to look through existing bug reports.

Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

2011-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 04:18:41PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > If you can't test it, what good does it to reopen the bug? > > It is a real bug and I have no reason to believe it was fixed. It *was* a real bug and you have no reason to believe it is not fixed. > Me

Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

2011-03-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ben Hutchings wrote: > If you can't test it, what good does it to reopen the bug? It is a real bug and I have no reason to believe it was fixed. Meanwhile the submitter has said that as soon as circumstances allow, he'll test it. Is the bug doing harm by sitting open? Perhaps someone should low

Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

2011-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 01:28 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > reopen 506419 > found 506419 linux-2.6/2.6.26-10 > found 506419 linux-2.6/2.6.26-11 > found 506419 linux-2.6/2.6.27 > tags 506419 + upstream > owner 506419 ! > quit > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I'm closing this because I think a year i

Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

2011-03-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
martin f krafft wrote: > I still have the hardware, but it's on a production machine. It is > onboard and I added a separate NIC, so it's unused, but I cannot > really run kernel-level experiments. > > However, the machine has KVM, and as soon as KVM supports PCI > passthrough, that might be usefu

Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

2011-03-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jonathan Nieder [2011.03.24.0728 +0100]: > > I'm closing this because I think a year is more than enough time to test > > a new version. > > I'll take ownership then. I used to have a forcedeth and while I > don't anymore, I'm interested in the driver being reliable. > > Martin, pin

Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

2011-03-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reopen 506419 found 506419 linux-2.6/2.6.26-10 found 506419 linux-2.6/2.6.26-11 found 506419 linux-2.6/2.6.27 tags 506419 + upstream owner 506419 ! quit Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm closing this because I think a year is more than enough time to test > a new version. I'll take ownership then. I u