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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: kernel panics with net_rx_action on kernels >2.6.26
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:56 +0100
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On Saturday, 13 of December 2008, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> hi,
> 
> one of my machines (x86) crashes under heavy network load with kernels
> >2.6.26, i tried quite everything possible between 2.6.27 and 2.6.28-rc8.
> 
> lspci -vv: http://xx.vu/~ahuemer/lspci_vv.txt
> of the quad nic 2 ports are used, the machine is acting as a iptables
> firewall/router.
> 
> kernel config (2.6.26) http://xx.vu/~ahuemer/config
> screenshot of the panic:
> http://xx.vu/~ahuemer/kernel_panic_net_rx_action.jpg
> 
> as i do not have any problems with kernels <=2.6.26, i doubt that this
> is a hardware problem.
> in case of the panic, nothing is written to the system log.
> 
> any hints welcome.
> please CC me on replies, i am not subscribed to the  mailing list.
> 
> thanks in advance.