Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll

[Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com>]

Hi Ingo,

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 18:57, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i've done the patch below, but it did not change the timeouts nor did it 
> solve the 'no network' problem. netconsole output hung earlier as well.
Hm, pity.

To rule out any e1000 problem, can you try the the following please,
both with HZ=250 and HZ=1000?

Olaf
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 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: build-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
===================================================================
--- build-2.6.orig/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ build-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -3871,10 +3871,17 @@ e1000_intr(int irq, void *data)
 		adapter->total_rx_bytes = 0;
 		adapter->total_rx_packets = 0;
 		__netif_rx_schedule(netdev);
-	} else
+	} else {
 		/* this really should not happen! if it does it is basically a
 		 * bug, but not a hard error, so enable ints and continue */
+		static unsigned int been_here = 0;
+
+		been_here++;
+		if (net_ratelimit())
+			printk(KERN_NOTICE "e1000_intr and rx_sched set (%u); state=0x%lx\n",
+					been_here, netdev->state);
 		e1000_irq_enable(adapter);
+	}
 #else
 	/* Writing IMC and IMS is needed for 82547.
 	 * Due to Hub Link bus being occupied, an interrupt