From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262421AbVHFMJV (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:09:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262425AbVHFMJU (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:09:20 -0400 Received: from smtp.bredband2.net ([82.209.166.4]:7471 "EHLO smtp.bredband2.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262334AbVHFMJO (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:09:14 -0400 Message-ID: <42F4A866.8060902@home.se> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:09:10 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?John_B=E4ckstrand?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: "David S. Miller" , mpm@selenic.com, ak@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll can lock up on low memory. References: <1123287835.18332.110.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050806015310.GA8074@waste.org> <1123295548.18332.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050806.024636.28814830.davem@davemloft.net> <1123322240.18332.131.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1123322240.18332.131.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steven Rostedt wrote: > In my last email, I stated that this discussion seems to have > demonstrated that the e1000 driver's netpoll is indeed broken, and needs > to be fixed. I submitted eariler a patch for this, but it's untested > and someone who owns an e1000 needs to try it. I can test this, but not right now: Im trying, again, to find my hard lockup issue, and so I will try to run this machine until it locks up. It lasted 9 days at one time, so it could potentially take some time, I'm afraid. --- John Bäckstrand