netdev - Re: Sundance network driver (D-Link DFE-580TX) timeouts rendering interface unusable

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Message-ID: <1327933736.2288.41.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:28:56 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@...il.com>,
	"Mike ." <mike-bugreport@...mail.com>, 656476@...s.debian.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sundance network driver (D-Link DFE-580TX) timeouts rendering
 interface unusable

Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 à 14:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings a écrit :

> Yes, I spotted that.  But no descriptors are pushed to the hardware
> here; that's done in the driver's TX tasklet.  Although... maybe that
> can run immediately when scheduled from here?  I've never had to deal
> with tasklets so I really don't know their semantics.

Thats probable on SMP ...


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