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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com,
	romieu@fr.zoreil.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inconsistent lock state
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:09:51 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100315.140951.149828242.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268686865.2824.4.camel@edumazet-laptop>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:01:05 +0100

> Also, this driver schedules a reset in case a fifo error is reported in
> rtl8169_rx_interrupt()
> 
>                 if (status & RxFOVF) {
>                         rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reset_task);
>                         dev->stats.rx_fifo_errors++;
>                 }
> 
> 
> This seems very strange too : In case of a RX spike, we reset card ?

It's possible that this has been found to hang the card.

If so, it should be documented because otherwise yes we
should not be doing this.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100307192305.GA598@elte.hu>
2010-03-08 12:51 ` inconsistent lock state Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-15 21:01   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-15 21:09     ` David Miller [this message]
2010-03-16  0:33     ` [PATCH] r8169: Fix rtl8169_rx_interrupt() Eric Dumazet
2010-03-16  6:50       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-03-16  7:12         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-16 14:50       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-03-16 15:00       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-03-16 15:05         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-16 15:10           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-03-16 15:20             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-16 18:26               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-03-16 18:48                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-16 19:02                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-03-17  7:25                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-06-15 11:24 inconsistent lock state Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-06-18 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-19  8:33   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2010-06-19 13:05   ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-06-21  6:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-22  8:59   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-22 17:17   ` Paul E. McKenney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-01 10:13 Pedro M. López
2010-03-07 10:21 Sergey Senozhatsky

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