From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20080117.000002.37027317.davem@davemloft.net> References: <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F520432DA91@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> <20080116.232037.261622584.davem@davemloft.net> <200801170851.56029.elendil@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, slavon@bigtelecom.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: elendil@planet.nl Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:48887 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752925AbYAQIAE (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:00:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200801170851.56029.elendil@planet.nl> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Frans Pop Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:51:55 +0100 > On Thursday 17 January 2008, David Miller wrote: > > From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" > > > > > We spent Wednesday trying to reproduce (without the patch) these issues > > > without much luck, and have applied the patch cleanly and will continue > > > testing it. Given the simplicity of the changes, and the community > > > testing, I'll give my ack and we will continue testing. > > > > You need a slow CPU, and you need to make sure you do actually > > trigger the TX limiting code there. > > Hmmm. Is a dual core Pentium D 3.20GHz considered slow these days? No of course :-) I guess it therefore depends upon the load as well.