From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andres Freund Subject: Re: Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 ( possibly?caused by netem) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:47:16 +0200 Message-ID: <200907071247.16977.andres@anarazel.de> References: <200907031326.21822.andres@anarazel.de> <20090707065014.GA3296@ami.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jarek Poplawski , Arun R Bharadwaj , Thomas Gleixner , Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML To: Joao Correia Return-path: Received: from mail.anarazel.de ([217.115.131.40]:42924 "EHLO smtp.anarazel.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753510AbZGGKrQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:47:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 07 July 2009 12:40:16 Joao Correia wrote: > I am now running 2.6.31-rc2 for a couple of hours, no freeze. > > Let me know what/if i can help with tracking down the original source > of the problem. You dont see the problem anymore with the `echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration` change (or equivalently with the patch from Jarek) or has the problem vanished completely? Andres