Re: Softnet/eepro100 driver conversion bug in 2.3.43pre8?

[David Mosberger]

  Simon> I was happily listening to an MP3 being played via NFS on my
  Simon> dual-processor box running 2.3.43pre8 (containing an eepro100
  Simon> over which the MP3 was streaming and also an inactive (but
  Simon> up) ne2k for a connection to my laptop).  Suddenly, the sound
  Simon> stopped, so I switched to the console playing the MP3:

  Simon> Frame# 11600 [ 4464], Time: 05:03.02 [01:56.61], NETDEV
  Simon> WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timed out:
  Simon> status 0050 0070 at 21037/21050 command 000c0000.  eth0:
  Simon> Trying to restart the transmitter...  nfs: server foo not
  Simon> responding, timed out Bus error
  Simon> [sroot@oof:/usr/src/alsa/cvs/current]#

  Simon> Plunk. :) mpg123 was reading with mmap() and NFS was mounted
  Simon> with the soft option, so the bus error makes sense.

I see a very similar thing: if I do a "make" of a simple program that
resides on an NFS mounted filesystem, the eepro100 driver reliably
times out.  I'm 100% sure this does not occur with 2.3.42.  Also, ftp
across the eepro100 works fine, so the problem seems to be related to
NFS.

My configuration:

	platform:	IA-64
	kernel:		v2.3.43 (ditto with 2.3.44)
	net driver:	eepro100 (connected via 10bt)

  --david