From: Jens Gecius <jens@gecius.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Longstanding APIC/NE2K bug
Date: 17 Jun 2001 02:25:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d783ei83.fsf@maniac.gecius.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010617000645.A2022@zarq.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010617000645.A2022@zarq.dhs.org> (rc@zarq.dhs.org's message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2001 00:06:45 -0400")
rc@zarq.dhs.org writes:
> There has been a bug in the 2.4.x series of kernels for a long time (at
> least -pre9) concerning SMP and ne2k-pci.
>
> Maciej W. Rozycki posted a patch back during 2.4.0 that fixed this problem
> "[patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups" in late January. I've been
> trying new kernels regularly since, and the patch doesn't seem to have
> made it in (tested 2.4.2, .3, .4 and .5). Falling back on my patched
> 2.4.0 works fine.
>
> Symptoms: Network driver locks up. Repeated messages of "ETH0: Transmit
> timeout" occurs. Unloading and reloading network drivers does not help,
> reboot is required. Usually only triggered by heavy network traffic
> (300-400 megs at 700k or so usually does it).
This fits exactly my problems I mentioned a couple weeks ago. Same
question here. Therefore my question: can we expect to see this patch
implemented? If not, any other suggestions?
--
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Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-17 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-17 4:06 Longstanding APIC/NE2K bug rc
2001-06-17 6:25 ` Jens Gecius [this message]
2001-06-18 6:08 ` Raphael Manfredi
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