netdev - Re: Kernel crash after using new Intel NIC (igb)

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Date:	Tue, 31 May 2011 12:50:19 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@...monizer.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	StuStaNet Vorstand <vorstand@...sta.mhn.de>,
	Yann Dupont <Yann.Dupont@...v-nantes.fr>,
	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Kernel crash after using new Intel NIC (igb)


* Arun Sharma <asharma@...com> wrote:

> On 5/29/11 5:33 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >* Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@...il.com>  wrote:
> >
> >>I asked Arun if he wanted to make this himself, because initial
> >>idea was coming from him, not because I did not want to make it ;)
> >
> >Hey, fair enough and sorry about the fuss! :-)
> 
> Sounds like there is general consensus that such a cleanup would be 
> good. I'll try to post a patch that does this cleanup for all archs 
> in the next couple of days - but I won't have a way of testing it 
> on anything other than x86_64.

-mm is a good place to do such many-arch kind of facility 
cleanups/extensions so please Cc: Andrew if you think the patch is 
ready to be tested on that level.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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