netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ossthema@de.ibm.com
Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	themann@de.ibm.com, raisch@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: new NAPI interface broken
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:08:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070918.120810.108807713.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709181815.45954.ossthema@de.ibm.com>

From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:15:45 +0200

> One other thing I observed is that I can not unload the module as the
> ref counter of the eth device is too low. I haven't tracked down the 
> source of this problem yet.

This is probably because of the resched device refcounting
bug that Roland Dreier just posted a fix for.

Look for subject "Fix refcounting problem with netif_rx_reschedule()"

I merge that in shortly to net-2.6.24 as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-18 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-07  9:37 new NAPI interface broken Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-09-12 12:50 ` David Miller
2007-09-12 13:10   ` new NAPI interface broken for POWER architecture? Christoph Raisch
2007-09-12 13:27     ` David Miller
2007-09-12 15:18     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-16  7:29   ` new NAPI interface broken Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-16  7:42     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-16  7:44     ` David Miller
2007-10-16  8:28       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-16  8:31         ` David Miller
2007-10-16  9:01           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-16 21:01             ` Anton Blanchard
2007-10-17 15:26             ` Christoph Raisch
2007-10-16 15:56           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-14 22:12 ` David Miller
2007-09-18 16:15   ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2007-09-18 19:08     ` David Miller [this message]
2007-09-19 15:33     ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-19 15:43       ` Jan-Bernd Themann

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070918.120810.108807713.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=ossthema@de.ibm.com \
    --cc=raisch@de.ibm.com \
    --cc=shemminger@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=themann@de.ibm.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).