From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware
Date: 12 Jan 2001 12:04:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93no05$7k1$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14H8Ks-0004hA-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3A5F4827.2E443786@colorfullife.com> <20010112200541.A25675@unternet.org>
In article <20010112200541.A25675@unternet.org>,
Frank de Lange <frank@unternet.org> wrote:
>As per Linus' suggestion, I removed the disable_irq/enable_irq statements from
>the 8390 core driver, and replace the spinlocks with irq-safe versions. This
>seems to solve the network hangs, as I am currently running a heavy network
>load (which would have killed a non-patched driver within seconds). Network
>latency seems a bit higher, and there are some hiccups in the streaming audio
>(part of the network load, easy indicator of performance...), but no hangs.
Ok, so it's tentatively the IOAPIC disable/enable code. But it could
obviously be something that just interacts with it, including just a
timing issue (ie the _real_ bug might just be bad behaviour when
changing IO-APIC state at the same time as an interrupt happens, and
disable/enable-irq just happen to be the only things that do it at a
high enough frequency that you can see the problem).
Remind me: what polarity are your io-apic irq's? Level, edge, sideways?
Anything else that might be relevant?
Linus
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-12 17:16 QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 17:33 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 17:51 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:25 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:04 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:07 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:21 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:33 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:52 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 20:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14 0:13 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-01-14 0:23 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:05 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:11 ` QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated? Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 20:16 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 20:26 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 20:35 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 20:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-12 20:46 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 21:05 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-15 2:00 ` Jorge Nerin
2001-01-13 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 0:19 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-13 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 20:54 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 21:07 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 21:31 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 21:21 ` QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 23:35 ` QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware Alan Cox
2001-01-13 0:06 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13 0:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 0:48 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-13 0:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 1:27 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-13 1:51 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13 2:11 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-13 1:49 ` Jens Axboe
2001-01-13 2:12 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-13 2:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 3:24 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-13 12:37 ` Russell King
2001-01-13 15:18 ` Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic (was: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6...) Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13 23:55 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-14 0:18 ` Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic J . A . Magallon
2001-01-14 0:23 ` Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic (was: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6...) J . A . Magallon
2001-01-14 2:14 ` Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic J . A . Magallon
2001-01-15 16:15 ` QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware Zdenek Kabelac
2001-01-13 1:38 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13 2:10 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-12 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 18:08 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 23:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-13 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 0:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-13 0:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 19:05 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-01-15 14:36 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-01-12 22:03 ` Latest status of IDE patches from Andre Jeff Nguyen
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