From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264391AbTLaMZq (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:25:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264396AbTLaMZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:25:45 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:45289 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264391AbTLaMZn (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:25:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:21:55 -0500 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.0-mm2] e100 driver hangs after period of moderate receive load Message-ID: <20031231122155.GA13323@gnu.org> References: <20031231110209.GA9858@gnu.org> <3FF2BCDE.5010302@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FF2BCDE.5010302@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Lennert Buytenhek Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 07:11:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >After banging on an e100 card for about ten minutes with a ~60kpps stream, > >the interface stops receiving packets. Interrupts come in once every few > >seconds (from /proc/interrupts), but no packets are received anymore at > >all. > >Lots of slab corruption messages in the syslog that were generated during > >that packet stream (see other email I sent.) Stopping the packet stream > >still leaves the interface unusable. 'ifconfig eth1 down ; ifconfig eth1 > >up' > >seems to fix things. > > Is NAPI enabled for this driver? The interrupt behavior seems normal > for NAPI, but certainly the rest of the behavior does not... Yes, NAPI was indeed enabled. I 'went back' to 2.6.1-rc1 and that seems fine now. Any patches you want me to try on top of 2.6.0-mm2? --L