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From: "Mr. Berkley Shands" <berkley@cs.wustl.edu>
To: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Mark A. Bober" <mark@cts.wustl.edu>, "Lloyd, Dave" <dlloyd@exegy.com>
Subject: 2.6.29 forcedeth hang W/O NAPI enabled
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:28:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C8FC19.5080201@cs.wustl.edu> (raw)

Another new kernel, another interesting lock up. Centos 5.2, X86_84 on 
an opteron 8GB 4 cores (275 X 2).
If  CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI is not enabled, then within 60 seconds of the 
console login prompt
appearing, the network becomes unresponsive. packets are seen to appear 
according to ifconfig eth0
and with ethtool -S eth0, but they go nowhere. NFS stops, ping stops, 
logins stop, ldap stops.
My network is class B, netmask 255.255.0.0, and the department router is 
directly connected
under this netmask. If I re-compile the forcedeth.ko with NAPI enabled, 
then reinstall it,
and depmod -aq then

service network stop; rmmod forcedeth; modprobe forcedeth; service 
network start

brings everything back online eventually. This was not an issue with 
2.6.28-8 or before.

Berkley




             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-24 15:28 Mr. Berkley Shands [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-25 23:24 2.6.29 forcedeth hang W/O NAPI enabled Adam Richter
2009-03-26  0:05 ` David Miller
2009-03-26  1:20   ` Adam Richter
2009-03-26  3:14     ` David Miller
2009-03-26  3:36     ` Herbert Xu
2009-03-26  5:24       ` Adam Richter
2009-03-26  6:58         ` Herbert Xu
2009-03-26 23:29           ` Adam Richter
2009-03-26  0:06 Adam Richter
2009-03-26  0:08 ` David Miller

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