Re: tx queue start entry x dirty entry y (was 8139too PCI IRQ issues)

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Sat Jul 23 2005 - 14:16:39 EST


Mark Burton <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
> I'm getting similar results to Nick Warne, in that when my ethernet is
> stressed at all (for instance by NFS), I end up with
> nfs: server..... not responding, still trying
> nfs: server .... OK
>
> With a realtec card, I get errors in /var/spool/messages along the
> lines of:
> Jul 3 14:31:13 localhost kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 0c
> 0005 c07f media 00.
> Jul 3 14:31:13 localhost kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 1160
> dirty entry 1156.
> Jul 3 14:31:13 localhost kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 0 is
> 0008a03c. (queue head)

Probably it's the miss config of PIC. Can you post more info?

- /proc/interrupt
- mptable
- 8259A.pl
- lspci -vvv
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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