Hi all, we've recently got some Asus P5E Deluxe based boards with Yukon NICs on it: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 81f8 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 762 Memory at fcffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Expansion ROM at fcfc0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data <?> Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+ Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?> Kernel driver in use: sky2 Kernel modules: sky2 Kernel is 2.6.27.21 (vanilla) with sky2 version 1.22, but we have seen similar issues with 2.6.26 and 2.6.28 kernels (Debian based or vanilla). We do see this error quite often, especially during installation and afterwards if doing "innocent" stuff like browsing through dmesg or doing 'lshw|most': May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040007] ------------[ cut here ]------------ May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040011] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:219 dev_watchdog+0x121/0x1b8() May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040013] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (sky2): transmit timed out May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040015] Modules linked in: ipmi_devintf ipmi_watchdog ipmi_poweroff ipmi_msghandler i2c_i801 i2c_core sky2 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040025] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27.21-atlas-generic-noinitrd #1 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040027] May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040028] Call Trace: May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040030] <IRQ> [<ffffffff80237378>] warn_slowpath+0xb4/0xdc May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040037] [<ffffffff804d2d00>] sk_filter+0x10/0x80 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040040] [<ffffffff804e7b1a>] ip_route_input+0x63e/0xedf May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040044] [<ffffffff803bf7b9>] __next_cpu+0x19/0x26 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040048] [<ffffffff802302e7>] find_busiest_group+0x315/0x7c3 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040051] [<ffffffff80232203>] try_to_wake_up+0x165/0x177 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040054] [<ffffffff8022f0ce>] enqueue_task_fair+0xd8/0x130 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040057] [<ffffffff804df6ed>] dev_watchdog+0x121/0x1b8 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040060] [<ffffffff80232203>] try_to_wake_up+0x165/0x177 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040062] [<ffffffff804df5cc>] dev_watchdog+0x0/0x1b8 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040065] [<ffffffff8023fa06>] run_timer_softirq+0x16e/0x1ee May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040069] [<ffffffff8024c075>] ktime_get_ts+0x21/0x49 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040072] [<ffffffff8023bfad>] __do_softirq+0x6a/0xda May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040075] [<ffffffff8021163c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040078] [<ffffffff802130fb>] do_softirq+0x3c/0x81 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040082] [<ffffffff80220326>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xa7 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040085] [<ffffffff80210e43>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x83/0x90 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040086] <EOI> [<ffffffff802170e2>] mwait_idle+0x3c/0x46 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040092] [<ffffffff8020ee32>] cpu_idle+0x91/0xd1 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040094] May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040096] ---[ end trace da19323bcd799bc5 ]--- May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.040098] sky2 eth0: tx timeout May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.048993] sky2 eth0: transmit ring 348 .. 308 report=348 done=348 May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.049017] sky2 eth0: disabling interface May 12 09:04:28 gpu01 kernel: [ 3000.053439] sky2 eth0: enabling interface May 12 09:04:31 gpu01 kernel: [ 3003.153938] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx After this it takes a couple of minutes until the NIC reports back to ping requests. Anyone an idea what this is about? TIA Carsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html