From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: george anzinger Subject: Re: Network oops Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:12:04 -0700 Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3D04B3B4.DDA3878C@mvista.com> References: <3D0390E2.1B80ADEE@mvista.com> <20020609.213224.01016187.davem@redhat.com> <3D045F15.578E1DA9@mvista.com> <20020610.013110.81671593.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de, pekkas@netcore.fi Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org "David S. Miller" wrote: > > From: george anzinger > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:11:01 -0700 > > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > > Also we need to know what network driver, if preemption is being > > used (being from mvista I assume you are using preemption, and if > > so make sure you have the preemption networking patches applied). > > Uh, are you saying there is a set of network patches? If > so, where might they be found? And yes, we are testing > preemption, trying to wring out the "last" bug :) (Could > you be referring to the patches we are developing?) > > An mvista person recently put "make net preempt safe" patches > into 2.5.x Basically it amounted to putting a few preempt_disable > sections into net/core/skbuff.c Ah, yes. Those are the ones I have found sofar. Robert Love would be the submitter. It would apear there is at least one more hole :( Thus the query. -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Real time sched: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/ Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml