From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@redhat.com>,
=?iso-8859-2?q? Marcin Ślusarz?= <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Jean-Baptiste Vignaud" <vignaud@xandmail.fr>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
shemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-net <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Re: 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after random time
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:30:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070809153039.GB4955@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p738x8kg0dp.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> writes:
>
> > It seems, we can start to think about some preferred solutions,
> > already. Here are some of my preliminary conclusions and suggestions.
> >
> > The problem of timeouts with some 'older' network cards seems to hit
> > mainly x86_64 arch, and after diagnosing and testing (still beeing
> > done) it's caused by resending level type irqs.
>
> i386 interrupt code should be similar, except for the lack of
> per CPU irqs, but that shouldnt' affect resending.
>
> >
> > Possible solutions:
>
> We should probably at least add some statistic counters to the
> standard kernel to try to detect these cases.
>
> > It looks like these changes are needed for this x86_64 only,
>
> Why?
Maybe I missed something, but considering the popularity of i386
there was not so much of consistent reporting?! I was very surprised,
when I read a few days ago that Linus seems to think that this one
here is only an individual problem...
Jarek P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-09 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-29 8:50 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after random time Jean-Baptiste Vignaud
2007-06-29 15:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-23 5:44 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-07-23 8:53 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-24 7:18 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-24 8:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-24 9:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-24 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 20:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 0:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-25 7:23 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-25 13:57 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-25 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-26 12:44 ` [PATCH][netdrvr] lib8390: comment on locking by Alan Cox " Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-26 12:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-30 19:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-30 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-30 13:05 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-26 7:16 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-07-26 8:13 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-26 8:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-26 8:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-26 8:55 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-26 9:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-30 7:29 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-07-30 8:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-01 7:24 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-01 7:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06 6:58 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-07-31 13:20 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-06 7:00 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-06 7:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06 17:43 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-08-06 19:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-09 14:50 ` [RFC] " Jarek Poplawski
[not found] ` <p738x8kg0dp.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
2007-08-09 15:30 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2007-08-07 10:09 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-07 7:46 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-07 8:23 ` Jarek Poplawski
[not found] ` <4bacf17f0708070237w19d184b3p7f74b53612edb9a6@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-07 9:52 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-07 12:13 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-07 12:55 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-08 11:11 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-08 11:09 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-08 11:42 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-08 11:53 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-09 9:19 ` [patch (testing)] " Jarek Poplawski
[not found] ` <4bacf17f0708092333n17e0ba19jf2c769531610868d@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-10 7:10 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-10 10:43 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-10 11:37 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-31 15:58 ` [patch] genirq: temporary fix for level-triggered IRQ resend Ingo Molnar
2007-07-31 16:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-08 11:00 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-02 17:03 ` Gabriel C
2007-08-02 20:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-03 6:07 ` [patch] genirq: fix simple and fasteoi irq handlers Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-03 8:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-03 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-03 9:10 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-03 11:57 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-03 12:26 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-06 7:05 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-06 6:07 ` [patch (take 2)] " Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-06 6:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06 7:07 ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-06 7:19 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-26 9:11 ` 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after random time Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-26 8:19 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-26 8:16 ` Ingo Molnar
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