linux-kernel - Re: Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash", (was: Re: Linux 2.6.29)

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Message-ID: <20090324140642.GE32043@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:06:42 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frank Blaschka <blaschka@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash", (was: Re:
	Linux 2.6.29)


* Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:02:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Yesterday about half of my testboxes (3 out of 7) started getting 
> > weird networking failures: their network interface just got stuck 
> > completely - no rx and no tx at all. Restarting the interface did 
> > not help.
> 
> Darn, does this patch help?
> 
> net: Fix netpoll lockup in legacy receive path

thanks, added it to the test mix. Should know the result fin 1-2 
hours test time.

	Ingo
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