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From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: John Roll <john@cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network hang with 2.4.1-pre9 and 3c59x
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:40:26 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A6E247A.C6A2FD17@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101231740.MAA27037@panic.harvard.edu>

John Roll wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I read about some problems with my ethernet card (3c59x) but it was rumored
> that they were fixed in 2.4.1-pre8.  I have 6 IDE drives raided together and
> was stress testing the disk IO.  Suddenly there was no network!
> 
>
> ...
> Linux image.harvard.edu 2.4.1-pre9 #1 SMP Mon Jan 22 12:59:32 EST 2001 i686 unknown
> 
> ...
> eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?

This is due to a lost APIC interrupt acknowledgement.  A workaround
is to boot with the `noapic' LILO option.

This long-standing and very nasty problem was discussed extensively
a week or two ago.  Suspicions were cast at the disable_irq() function
but I'm not sure anything 100% conclusive was arrived at.

I guess I'll have to find a way to make disable_irq() go away,
see if that helps.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-24  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-23 17:40 Network hang with 2.4.1-pre9 and 3c59x John Roll
2001-01-24  0:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-01-24 12:35   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-25  0:24     ` Andrew Morton

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