netdev - Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: e1000e napi lockup

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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:24:05 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: e1000e napi lockup

Kok, Auke napsal(a):
> Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> I still have problems with the driver. When I do `ip link set eth0
>> up', ksoftirq
>> runs with 100 % cpu time, so I think you endlessly re-schedule some
>> timer (or
>> the new napi layer?)
> 
> something changed in the logic and e1000e apparently does something
> wrong. I'll look into it on monday and resubmit a fixup patch (see
> robert olsson's mail as well discussing this issue)

he's posted me a patch, but no change on my side :(.

Anyway, I'm going away of the box on monday (today). will be back on fri to
test patches :).

thanks,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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