Very bad Realtek problems

[Mason Loring Bliss]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:46:30AM +0900, Yonghyeon PYUN wrote:

> Given that you can reliably reproduce the issue, let's check simple ones
> first.

Just as a quick update, I couldn't tolerate the network outages any more as
they were impacting my work, so I bought an Intel NIC. That said, this will
actually free me up to do more debugging of the Realtek as soon as I get a
chance to finish setting up a small test network - I'll be able to look at
both sides of interactions instead of depending on the flaky interface.


> If you think the issue intermittently happens regardless of network load,
> try attached patch. I'm not sure whether the patch makes any difference for
> you since many PCIe NICs don't implement CLKREQ feature. It's just a wild
> guess.

This is an onboard NIC, for what it's worth, on my:

Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
        Product Name: M4A88T-M
        Version: Rev X.0x

I'm not sure if that changes it as compared with a plug-in PCIe device. Just
mentioning it for completeness.

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