From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:12:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:12:04 -0500 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:49413 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:11:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5F64F1.2C4ADDBA@colorfullife.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:11:29 +0100 From: Manfred Spraul X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Frank de Lange , dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, Alan Cox Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated? In-Reply-To: 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 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I'd like to know _which_ of the two makes a difference (or does it only > trigger with both of them enabled)? And even then I'm not sure that it is > "the" solution - both changes to io-apic handling had some reason for > them. Ingo, what was the focus-cpu thing? > Frank, please clarify: you still run without disable_irq_nosync() in 8390.c? I have a first idea: we send an EOI to an interrupt that is masked on the IO apic, perhaps that causes the problems. I'm right now typing a patch. -- Manfred - 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/