From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268400AbUIBP0d (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:26:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268401AbUIBP0d (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:26:33 -0400 Received: from gwout.thalesgroup.com ([195.101.39.227]:39946 "EHLO GWOUT.thalesgroup.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268400AbUIBP0a (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:26:30 -0400 Message-ID: <41373B9D.9040400@fr.thalesgroup.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:26:21 +0200 From: "P.O. Gaillard" Reply-To: pierre-olivier.gaillard@fr.thalesgroup.com Organization: Thales Air Defence User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q6 - network is no longer smooth References: <20040830192131.GA12249@elte.hu> <4135C12B.6050208@fr.thalesgroup.com> <20040901130518.GA10060@elte.hu> <413702EE.2000309@fr.thalesgroup.com> <20040902112856.GA5377@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote:> * P.O. Gaillard wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>I just tried with Q6 and the network behaviour seems odd : >> - my ssh connection freezes a bit, >> - communication between the two PCs sharing the GigE connection is >> difficult to start : > > > please try the -Q9 patch i just released, and if you still see any > problems does the following: > > echo 300 > /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_backlog_granularity > > help? > Q9 just crashed after showing the login prompt. It says there is a kernel bug in netdevice.h at line 874 The backtrace is : finegrained_poll net_rx_action ___do_soft_irq _do_soft_irq ksoftirqd kthread ksoftirqd kthread kernel_thread_helper I have the following modules : e1000 i2c_isa i2c_sensor w83627hf asus_acpi P.O. Gaillard