From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [e1000 debug] KERNEL: assertion (!sk_forward_alloc) failed... Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:35:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20060331.013540.95485284.davem@davemloft.net> References: <200603311057.07213.netdev@axxeo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@axxeo.de, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, nipsy@bitgnome.net, jrlundgren@gmail.com, cat@zip.com.au, djani22@dynamicweb.hu, yoseph.basri@gmail.com, bb@kernelpanic.ru, mykleb@no.ibm.com, olel@ans.pl, michal@feix.cz, chris@scorpion.nl, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com, E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au In-Reply-To: Sender: e1000-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: e1000-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Herbert Xu Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:16:53 +1100 > Ingo Oeser wrote: > > > > More datapoints. > > > > First of all, I don't see the problem, so this is an exclusion data point. > > Great. I think so far all the configurations that have this problem > are > > e1000 + SMP + TSO > > Since your machine is not SMP but has the other two things it would > indicate that this is an SMP race. He does not have TSO enabled, e1000 disables TSO when on a link speed slower than gigabit. You'll see something like the following in your logs: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642