From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniele Venzano <webvenza@libero.it>
Subject: Re: SiS900: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:26:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41067418.9020000@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407232052.06616.dominik.karall@gmx.net>
Dominik Karall wrote:
> After a few hours my network doesn't work on my laptop. There appear a lot of
> those messages:
>
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
>
> It works again after restarting network. I'm using 2.6.8-rc2 now. It was the
> same problem in 2.6.7, but I didn't test it with earlier kernels.
A NULL appears when the machine is temporarily unable to allocate room
for a new skb. Your machine's atomic memory pools are getting too low...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-27 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-23 18:52 SiS900: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping Dominik Karall
2004-07-25 9:21 ` Dominik Karall
2004-07-27 15:26 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-07-27 16:14 ` Dominik Karall
2004-07-27 16:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-28 12:29 ` Daniele Venzano
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=41067418.9020000@pobox.com \
--to=jgarzik@pobox.com \
--cc=dominik.karall@gmx.net \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=webvenza@libero.it \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.