From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: new NAPI interface broken Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070918.120810.108807713.davem@davemloft.net> References: <200709071137.02801.ossthema@de.ibm.com> <20070914.151252.85399360.davem@davemloft.net> <200709181815.45954.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, themann@de.ibm.com, raisch@de.ibm.com To: ossthema@de.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51614 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754662AbXIRTIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:08:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200709181815.45954.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jan-Bernd Themann 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.