NETDEV WATCHDOG (Re: locked 3c905B with 2.4.5pre2)

[G. Hugh Song]

> Re: locked 3c905B with 2.4.5pre2
> 
> From: Julian Anastasov ([e-mail])
> Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 04:22:15 EST
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> 
>         Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > > eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
> >
> > This is a failure of the APIC interrupt controller in
> > the 2.4 kernel. You'll need to boot your kernel with
> > the `noapic' LILO option. Or run -ac kernels, which
> > have a software workaround which fixes the problem.
> 
>         Yes, it seems noapic solved the problem with the lockup :(
> 
> > Rumour has it that the APIC fix will be merged into Linus' tree
> > very soon. It needs to be - one of the more important ethernet
> > drivers is basically unviable on x86 SMP in 2.4.
> 
>         Agreed :) The performance sucks without apic.
> 
> Regards
> 
> --
> Julian Anastasov <[e-mail]>
> -
I used to get NETDEV WATCHDOG eth0:timeout error on 
Alpha SMP, too, with the tulip card.  Definitely, Alpha
has nothing to do with the x86 APIC.  Since then, I switched to
3C905B.

I suspect that NETDEV WATCHDOG error covers a broad class of 
network errors.

Does anyone know more about this?

Thank you

-- 
G. Hugh Song