Re: igb pollabe driver

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Roman Chertov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/24/2011 06:55 AM, ahmed A. wrote:
>
>> Hi Roman,
>>
>> Using the igb pollable driver when I assign both Todevice and PollDevice
>> to the same network port, no packets are sent out to the network and I
>> got the following message from demsg
>>
>> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth24: transmit timed out
>> igb: eth24: igb_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex,
>> Flow Control: RX/TX
>>
>
> As far as I recall, watchdog gets fired up when the network card sort of
> gets stuck.  Joonwoo should know more about this.  Maybe he will chime in.
>
>
>
>> Do have any idea what could be the problem, it only happens when
>> PollDevice and Todevice are using the same network port in this message
>> is eth24 ???
>>
>
> You are using the recent igb driver that you modified yourself based on the
> old igb driver that I gave you, right?  You can get PollDevice and ToDevice
> to work, when you only use one, right?
>

Yes, I am using the recent igb driver modified based on the old igb you gave
me. Yes,  I can get only PollDevice or ToDevice to work at the same network
port, when I use only one of them .



Ahmed