linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

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Message-Id: <20080117.000002.37027317.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:02 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	elendil@...net.nl
Cc:	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, slavon@...telecom.ru,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

From: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:51:55 +0100

> On Thursday 17 January 2008, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> >
> > > We spent Wednesday trying to reproduce (without the patch) these issues
> > > without much luck, and have applied the patch cleanly and will continue
> > > testing it.  Given the simplicity of the changes, and the community
> > > testing, I'll give my ack and we will continue testing.
> >
> > You need a slow CPU, and you need to make sure you do actually
> > trigger the TX limiting code there.
> 
> Hmmm. Is a dual core Pentium D 3.20GHz considered slow these days?

No of course :-)  I guess it therefore depends upon the load
as well.
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