netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: Lock transmit queue while disabling device

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Message-Id: <200912311115.33456.dhazelton@enter.net>
Date:	Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:15:33 -0500
From:	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>
To:	Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com>
Cc:	Mike McCormack <mikem@...g3k.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, flyboy@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: Lock transmit queue while disabling device

On Thursday 31 December 2009 10:58:15 am Michael Breuer wrote:
> This doesn't solve the issue on my system. Just ran a test - same
> errors. I don't think that the under-load errors I'm seeing involve
> sky2_detatch. I'm thinking it's related to the dhcp AF_INTERNET fix that
> solved the lockup under load - that something outside of sky2 is
> corrupting an skb.

and I am unable to try because I have never had the time - or the free machine 
- to narrow down what, exactly is causing a similar crash here. It appears, 
however, to be caused by some a**hole out there deciding to point a botnet at 
that server...

(at least... that's what has been going on each time the machine has gone 
down...)

DRH
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