From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:48:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:48:48 -0500 Received: from smtp2.Mountain.Net ([198.77.1.5]:2496 "EHLO nabiki.mountain.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:48:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3A120C6E.ADFE4C24@mountain.net> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:09:18 -0500 From: Tom Leete X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test11 i486) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB,en,fr,es,it,de,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hard lockups solved In-Reply-To: <3A1073B4.CDCA21DF@mountain.net> <200011140114.RAA14493@pizda.ninka.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "David S. Miller" wrote: > > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:05:24 -0500 > From: Tom Leete > > Your net/ipv4/tcp.c patch from the NE2000 thread cured them even > before I found the hardware fault. Has that patch gone to the > queue? I recommend it. > > The bugs I was "fixing" there were due to problems in wait queue > exclusivity nesting. We instead fixed wait queue exclusivity nesting > so it actually worked in test11-pre3, can you see if by itself that > kernel does not show your problems too? > > Thanks. > > Later, > David S. Miller > davem@redhat.com Done. Yes, it's fixed in vanilla test11-pre3, to go by limited testing. ftp, 15 Meg in 4 files -- no deathlike sleep, md5sums agree. That load would have certainly triggered the problem before. On to pre5. Thanks again, Tom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/