netdev - Re: inconsistent lock state

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Message-Id: <20100315.140951.149828242.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:09:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	oleg@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu, sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com,
	romieu@...zoreil.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inconsistent lock state

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:01:05 +0100

> Also, this driver schedules a reset in case a fifo error is reported in
> rtl8169_rx_interrupt()
> 
>                 if (status & RxFOVF) {
>                         rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reset_task);
>                         dev->stats.rx_fifo_errors++;
>                 }
> 
> 
> This seems very strange too : In case of a RX spike, we reset card ?

It's possible that this has been found to hang the card.

If so, it should be documented because otherwise yes we
should not be doing this.
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