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Message-ID: <20100111214758.GB3139@del.dom.local> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:47:58 +0100 From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> To: "Berck E. Nash" <flyboy@...il.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:02:40PM -0700, Berck E. Nash wrote: > Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > 2) someone with exactly this one problem (i.e. Berck ;-) might be > > mislead "no oops" is enough, while their linux might be still worse > > than before. (So I intended Berck to re-consider or even re-check > > this problem wrt. 2.6.31, and maybe even reporting another > > regression.) > > Well, the problem with this bug is how hard it is for me to reproduce. > I'm willing to admit that just because I never got it before 2.6.32 > isn't proof that it wasn't there in 2.6.31. But it's a regression > somewhere along the line, since I've been using this hardware for over 3 > years now. There were lots of bugs in the sky2 driver years ago, but > for the last 2+ years or so, I haven't had any trouble at all until now. > > The bug only shows up for me with bittorrent traffic. I also use the > same adapter to transfer backups over the network from several > computers, and that doesn't trigger it... > > I used 2.6.31 for however long it was the current stable, and I never > got a crash with it. After I got several crashes in 2.6.32, I reverted > to 2.6.31 until Jarek sent this patch that seems to have fixed it. I've > never gotten it to crash in 2.6.31, so I'm pretty sure it's a 2.6.32 > regression, but I can't prove it. > > I would love to do more testing, but since I can't reproduce the bug at > will, I'm not really sure what to offer? I mainly thought about looking at the logs during such bittorrent to compare if there is any visible change in "sky2 eth0: disabling interface"/"sky2 eth0: enabling interface" etc. frequency between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32. Jarek P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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