Arch Linux

Whenever my network card is under high load after a few minutes the card stops sending an receiving packets. I have to manually bring the interface down and up again to make it work. "demesg" gives this output:

WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 dev_watchdog+0x20b/0x220()
Hardware name: Studio 1537
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (tg3): transmit queue 0 timed out
Modules linked in: jfs ext3 jbd ext2 fuse vboxnetflt vboxdrv snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device usblp snd_hda_codec_atihdmi snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_hda_codec_idt dell_wmi fglrx(P) rtc_cmos lib80211_crypt_tkip wl(P) usb_storage rtc_core rtc_lib uvcvideo videodev sdhci_pci sdhci v4l1_compat lib80211 mmc_core coretemp snd_hda_intel firewire_ohci firewire_core snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep video output crc_itu_t led_class battery wmi snd_pcm ac snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc thermal button dell_laptop joydev rfkill radeon ttm drm_kms_helper cpufreq_ondemand drm i2c_algo_bit tg3 libphy acpi_cpufreq psmouse uhci_hcd freq_table intel_agp agpgart serio_raw iTCO_wdt sg iTCO_vendor_support evdev dcdbas ehci_hcd usbcore i2c_i801 i2c_core processor ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 aes_i586 aes_generic xts gf128mul dm_crypt dm_mod sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ahci libata scsi_mod
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P 2.6.33-ARCH #1
Call Trace:
[<c1043b4d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6d/0xa0
[<c125595b>] ? dev_watchdog+0x20b/0x220
[<c125595b>] ? dev_watchdog+0x20b/0x220
[<c1043bc6>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x26/0x30
[<c125595b>] dev_watchdog+0x20b/0x220
[<c105c56f>] ? insert_work+0x5f/0xd0
[<c12d27a5>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x25/0x30
[<c105cb41>] ? __queue_work+0x31/0x40
[<c1050dee>] run_timer_softirq+0x12e/0x2f0
[<c106ece6>] ? tick_do_broadcast+0x36/0x70
[<c1255750>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x220
[<c104a4bd>] __do_softirq+0x8d/0x1d0
[<c109648c>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x4c/0x190
[<c1066e8e>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x5e/0x90
[<c1099054>] ? move_native_irq+0x14/0x50
[<c104a63d>] do_softirq+0x3d/0x50
[<c104a9fd>] irq_exit+0x6d/0x70
[<c1005b00>] do_IRQ+0x50/0xc0
[<c100a378>] ? sched_clock+0x8/0x10
[<c1066b0b>] ? sched_clock_local+0xab/0x1a0
[<c1003cb0>] common_interrupt+0x30/0x38
[<c106007b>] ? sys_clock_settime+0x6b/0xa0
[<f84e2173>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x255/0x286 [processor]
[<c12290ba>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x7a/0x120
[<c10020b4>] cpu_idle+0x84/0xd0
[<c12ccba2>] start_secondary+0x1bd/0x1c3
---[ end trace 8c331e076b17dbaf ]---
tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting
tg3: DEBUG: MAC_TX_STATUS[0000000b] MAC_RX_STATUS[00000006]
tg3: DEBUG: RDMAC_STATUS[00000000] WDMAC_STATUS[00000000]
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=2c00 enable_bit=2
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=1400 enable_bit=2
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=c00 enable_bit=2
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=4800 enable_bit=2

This is the card I am using:

# lspci -v
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
Subsystem: Dell Device 029f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
Memory at fc100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [40] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [60] Vendor Specific Information: Len=6c <?>
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [cc] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-22-19-ff-fe-e7-02-25
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3

Additional info:
* kernel26: 2.6.33.3-1

Steps to reproduce:
1. Get Laptop with this card
2. Produce high load on eth0