[realtek] rtl8139.o - Tx queue start entry xxx dirty entry yyy

[Sebastian Haberey]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a problem with rtl8139.o under SuSE linux 7.1 mentioned 
before in this list; however I didn't manage to find the solution.

Symptoms: when under high load (transferring 30Mb files @ 100Mbit/s) transfer 
stops for about 5 to 10 seconds and the log shows entries like

Sep  4 15:34:05 firewall kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 15639  dirty 
entry 15639.
Sep  4 15:34:05 firewall kernel: eth0:  Tx descriptor 0 is 8008a03c.
Sep  4 15:34:05 firewall kernel: eth0:  Tx descriptor 1 is 8008a03c.
Sep  4 15:34:05 firewall kernel: eth0:  Tx descriptor 2 is 8008a03c.
Sep  4 15:34:05 firewall kernel: eth0:  Tx descriptor 3 is 8008a03c. (queue 
head)
Sep  4 15:34:15 firewall kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 2275  dirty entry 
2275.
Sep  4 15:34:15 firewall kernel: eth0:  Tx descriptor 0 is 8008a03c.
Sep  4 15:34:15 firewall kernel: eth0:  Tx descriptor 1 is 8008a03c.
Sep  4 15:34:15 firewall kernel: eth0:  Tx descriptor 2 is 8008a03c.
Sep  4 15:34:15 firewall kernel: eth0:  Tx descriptor 3 is 8008a03c. (queue 
head)

and so on. I tried to revert to older SuSE 6.3 and SuSE 6.2 rtl8139.o 
binaries - no success. The log still show the above entries.
Any ideas?

Sebastian Haberey

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