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Message-Id: <20070509.001814.116354599.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:18:14 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: linkwatch bustage in git-net From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 17:16:15 +1000 > The real problem here is a combination of factors. First of all e100 > does a netif_carrier_off in its open routine *before* the first call > to dev_activate. This when combined with the wrap-around bug causes > an infinitely delayed event for your NIC to be installed. I noticed that behavior of e100 too. > [NET] link_watch: Always schedule urgent events > > Urgent events may be delayed if we already have a non-urgent event > queued for that device. This patch changes this by making sure that > an urgent event is always looked at immediately. > > I've replaced the LW_RUNNING flag by LW_URGENT since whether work > is scheduled is already kept track by the work queue system. > > The only complication is that we have to provide some exclusion for > the setting linkwatch_nextevent which is available in the actual > work function. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Thanks for working this out, applied and pushed to net-2.6.git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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