From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [BUG] RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlocks Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:58:13 -0800 Message-ID: <45D4AD45.3010503@candelatech.com> References: <20070214132729.479793ac@freekitty> <45D382B7.9020901@candelatech.com> <20070214235420.GA13816@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kyle Lucke , Raghavendra Koushik , Al Viro To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:35815 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030587AbXBOS7L (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:59:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070214235420.GA13816@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu wrote: > Ben Greear : > [...] >> I seem to be able to trigger this within about 1 minute on a >> particular 2.6.18.2 system with some 8139too devices, so if someone >> has a patch that could be tested, I'll gladly test it. For >> whatever reason, I haven't hit this problem on 2.6.20 yet, but >> that could easily be dumb luck, and I haven't been running .20 >> very much. > > Bandaid below. It is not complete if your device hits the tx_watchdog > hard but it should help. So far, I've been running several hours without problems, so this does appear to be helping. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com