netdev - Re: kernel oops when system under network stress

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Message-ID: <20081016070703.GA5199@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:07:03 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Alex Samad <alex@...ad.com.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 04:48:33PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> > I'm tempted to blame tg3's management of netdev feature setting
> 
> I am using forcedeth not tg3 

Aha, then something is definitely screwed with the feature setting
because forcedeth doesn't even claim support for TSO6 or IPv6
checksum offload.

I wonder if sk_setup_caps is being called before we've set the
GSO type...

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