netdev - Re: kernel oops when system under network stress

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Message-ID: <20081016054833.GA9030@samad.com.au>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:48:33 +1100
From:	Alex Samad <alex@...ad.com.au>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-net@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel oops when system under network stress

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:41:59PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:55:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > [ Herbert, this looks like another case like that ebtables+tg3 one,
> >   where the checksum field is not set properly. ]
> 
> Looking at the trace, I don't think ebtables plays any part since
I have more of these about 127K file

> it appears only on the receive path while the checksum problem is
> on the transmit path.
> 
> I'm tempted to blame tg3's management of netdev feature setting

I am using forcedeth not tg3 

> since it's far from obvious whether it enables TSOv6 only if IPv6
> checksumming is also enabled.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm still stuck in some bog at the moment, but
> hopefully I can resume looking at this issue in a couple of days.
> 
> Thanks,

Hi herbert, seems like I have more kernel problems for you :)

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