From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 bug in 2.4.22, too much work at interrupt indefinitely
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:12:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F98FB06.2070805@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031023165342.79e927b5.shemminger@osdl.org>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 01:38:14 +0200
> "John Bäckstrand" <sandos@home.se> wrote:
>
>
>>The r8169 driver in 2.4.22 with or without debian patches/acpi/usb devices sharing the same interrupt: the driver always ends up locking the machine by having indefinitely much to do in the interrupt handler?
>>
>>Commented the printk out, still hangs the machine anyway. It happens even without a cable in the card. I have found no references to any bug reports at all with this card, and I cant see any bugfixes being in 2.5/2.6 but not 2.4 either. I can see the card TX/RX:ing a few hundred packets or more (3-60 secs) before hanging.
>>
>>Any way to debug this, or should I just try 2.6?
>>
>>---
>>John Bäckstrand
>
>
> 2.6 will have the same problem. I have a version that uses NAPI that shouldn't hang.
> It seems to work fine, but didn't want to submit it without more testing.
Are you sure you're not thinking about 8139too, not r8169?
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 23:38 r8169 bug in 2.4.22, too much work at interrupt indefinitely John Bäckstrand
2003-10-23 23:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-24 10:12 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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