Vortex Driver IRQ Hang

[Keith Rowland]

I wasn't sure if I am supposed to get a reply from the developer or not.
So I'm not sure it has been received by those who need to know. But I'm
re-posting my BUG report. Should I just throw out the 3COM board and go
get some NE2000 boards?? I'd like to run SMP, but can't with this problem.

{REPEAT POST}

BUG REBORT:

I run the very busy www.artbell.com web site.

Tyan Dual CPU board with 2 Pent 200MMX chips
128 MB RAM Kernel 2.0.35 SMP 3C950B Cyclone NIC


I am getting system crashes preceeded with the following messages:

Aug 18 08:06:45 artbell kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e601.
Aug 18 08:06:45 artbell kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered
-- IRQ blocked by  another device?
Aug 18 08:06:46 artbell kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e601.
Aug 18 08:06:46 artbell kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered
-- IRQ blocked by another device?
Aug 18 08:06:46 artbell kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e601.
Aug 18 08:06:46 artbell kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered
-- IRQ blocked by another device?

These messages run for about 1-2 minutes, in the log file while the 
system is unaccessable from this point on.

Here is the pertinent system info:


/proc/pci:

PCI devices found:

  Bus  0, device  19, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: Trident TG 9660 / Cyber9385 (rev 211).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0400000.

  Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 36).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
      I/O at 0x6100.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0410000.

  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
    IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=32.  
      I/O at 0xf000.

  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  No
bursts.  

  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  


/proc/interrupts:

 0:   13787104   timer
 1:         96   keyboard
 2:          0   cascade
 8:          1 + rtc
10:   22283582   eth0
13:          1   math error
14:     681785 + ide0

The system ran for 4 days without any usage when installed, without fail.
Then when we started sending users to the web site, the system crashed 3
times in 2 days, twice when busy and once when it was relatively light
use. Right now, I'm running with SMP off, as that has stopped the crashing
at this time. 




Sincerely, Keith Rowland

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