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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rcx networking oops
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:12:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050531161220.4af50a69.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050531224012.GA16789@linuxace.com>

Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> wrote:
>
> At Andrew's suggestion, I tested the latest 2.6.12-rc5-gitx, and am still
>  hitting an oops on a gateway box under load.  From comparing the various
>  oops, it seems like a dev is disappearing while one CPU is in the middle
>  of processing traffic.  At least that's what my naive analysis leads
>  me to believe.

Are you _sure_ the hardware is good?

Are you running anything which would cause netdevs to be destroyed? 
Bringing virtual devices up and down?  TUN/TAP driver?  Bonding driver? 
Anything like that?

Have you tried CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and/or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-31 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-31 22:40 2.6.12-rcx networking oops Phil Oester
2005-05-31 23:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-05-31 23:23   ` Phil Oester
2005-05-31 23:28     ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-31 23:34       ` Phil Oester
2005-06-01  5:49 ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-01 17:00   ` Phil Oester
2005-06-07  5:46     ` randy_dunlap
2005-06-07 15:34       ` Phil Oester

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