From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:56:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20100112.025620.210305029.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100112.000804.186755338.davem@davemloft.net> <20100112085633.GB6628@ff.dom.local> <20100112.014218.112731835.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, mikem@ring3k.org, flyboy@gmail.com, rjw@sisk.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mbreuer@majjas.com To: jarkao2@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38112 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754036Ab0ALK4N (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:56:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100112.014218.112731835.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: David Miller Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:42:18 -0800 (PST) > From: Jarek Poplawski > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:56:34 +0000 > >> Maybe I miss something, but once more: this patch mentioned by Berck >> Nash has been tested by at least two users, Berck himself, and >> probably even more intensively by Michael Breuer, during af_packet >> debugging. Both guys acknowledged it helped, so it can't be that bad. > > I agree, as a short term fix, this patch is fine. In case it isn't painfully obvious, I'm applying Jarek's "v2" fix and will also queue that up for -stable.