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From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: e1000e napi lockup
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:31:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E4E4D3.7040905@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E4E305.6010406@gmail.com>

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Kok, Auke napsal(a):
>> Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> I still have problems with the driver. When I do `ip link set eth0
>>> up', ksoftirq
>>> runs with 100 % cpu time, so I think you endlessly re-schedule some
>>> timer (or
>>> the new napi layer?)
>> something changed in the logic and e1000e apparently does something
>> wrong. I'll look into it on monday and resubmit a fixup patch (see
>> robert olsson's mail as well discussing this issue)
> 
> he's posted me a patch, but no change on my side :(.

that's what I feared/thought as well when I saw his patch - e1000e and e1000 are 
slightly different so the exit condition will be as well.

> Anyway, I'm going away of the box on monday (today). will be back on fri to
> test patches :).

I'll be on top of it. Since e1000e will be merged I need to get this workign 
properly before the merge window opens - no pressure :)

Auke

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-10  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-07  7:19 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: e1000e napi lockup Jiri Slaby
2007-09-07  8:03 ` David Miller
2007-09-07 16:24   ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-07 23:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-07 23:40       ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-07 23:49         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-07 23:52           ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-09  9:58 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-09-09 22:50   ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-10  6:24     ` Jiri Slaby
2007-09-10  6:31       ` Kok, Auke [this message]

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