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Message-ID: <4A8F1011.7040508@googlemail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:22:25 +0200 From: Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> CC: David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>, Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>, Rui Santos <rsantos@...popie.com>, Michael Büker <m.bueker@...lin.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts Hi! Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I have what at first glance looks like a problem caused by this > patch. For the last month since upgrading one of my machines from > 2.6.28 to 2.6.30 it has been becomming inaccessible from the > network and I have a few: > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit timed out > > in my logs and a lot soft lockups that always have rtl8169_interrupt > as the thing that is running. I suspect your patch has introduced > a near infinite loop in the interrupt handler and is causing these > soft lockups. I've been running 2.6.30 for more than two months now and all is fine. But this might be a different chip. -- Michael "Tired" Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com> X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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