From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Chan" Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:36:47 -0700 Message-ID: <1154630207.3117.17.camel@rh4> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net Return-path: Received: from mms2.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.18]:18194 "EHLO mms2.broadcom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030183AbWHCSfM (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:35:12 -0400 To: "Herbert Xu" In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:00 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > I'm sending this on mostly because it was a bit of a pain to track down, > > and hopefully it will save time if anyone else hits this while playing > > with the -rt kernel. It is NOT the right way to fix things, so please > > don't even think of applying this patch (unless you need it, in your own > > local tree :-). > > > > One of these days when we have time to breath we'll look into fixing > > this the right way, if someone doesn't beat us to it first. :-) > Ted, what tg3 hardware is having this timer related problem? Can you send me the tg3 probing output?