This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
r8169: RxConfig hack for the 8168evl.
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
r8169-rxconfig-hack-for-the-8168evl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From eb2dc35d99028b698cdedba4f5522bc43e576bd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:09:18 +0000
Subject: r8169: RxConfig hack for the 8168evl.
From: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
commit eb2dc35d99028b698cdedba4f5522bc43e576bd2 upstream.
The 8168evl (RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_34) based Gigabyte GA-990FXA motherboards
are very prone to NETDEV watchdog problems without this change. See
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42899 for instance.
I don't know why it *works*. It's depressingly effective though.
For the record:
- the problem may go along IOMMU (AMD-Vi) errors but it really looks
like a red herring.
- the patch sets the RX_MULTI_EN bit. If the 8168c doc is any guide,
the chipset now fetches several Rx descriptors at a time.
- long ago the driver ignored the RX_MULTI_EN bit.
e542a2269f232d61270ceddd42b73a4348dee2bb changed the RxConfig
settings. Whatever the problem it's now labeled a regression.
- Realtek's own driver can identify two different 8168evl devices
(CFG_METHOD_16 and CFG_METHOD_17) where the r8169 driver only
sees one. It sucks.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -3737,6 +3737,7 @@ static void rtl_init_rxcfg(struct rtl816
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_22:
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_23:
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_24:
+ case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_34:
RTL_W32(RxConfig, RX128_INT_EN | RX_MULTI_EN | RX_DMA_BURST);
break;
default:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/r8169-rxconfig-hack-for-the-8168evl.patch
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