netdev - Re: 2.6.23-rc5: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected

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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:04:41 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc5: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected

On Mon, 2007-10-09 at 21:00 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:


> The minimal fix would be to make sure that we disable BH on
> the first CPU. 

disabling BH would make it more symmetric to the way we handle
egress. I couldnt reproduce the issue, but this should hopefully resolve
it.
Christian, can you test with this patch?

cheers,
jamal





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