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From: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:59:27 -0400
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On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 13:57 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org> writes:
> I have what at first glance looks like a problem caused by this
> patch.  For the last month since upgrading one of my machines from
> 2.6.28 to 2.6.30 it has been becomming inaccessible from the
> network and I have a few:
> 
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit timed out
> 
> in my logs and a lot soft lockups that always have rtl8169_interrupt
> as the thing that is running.   I suspect your patch has introduced
> a near infinite loop in the interrupt handler and is causing these
> soft lockups.
> 
> Any ideas?

I would be surprised, but I suppose it is not out of the realm of
possibility. Can you send me a full dmesg, please?