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From: Todd Merritt <tmerritt@email.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: ixgbe: panic in ixgbe_clean_rx_irq()
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:37:12 -0700
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No, we're running the stock kernel.  We can reliably reproduce it here.  
Please let me know if there's anything we can do to help you with 
providing a fix.

Thanks,
Todd

Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Todd Merritt wrote:
>
>   
>> We're getting a panic in the same function with the stable version of the ixgbe
>> driver 2.0.38.2-1 on redhat 5 kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.  Is there a dev
>> release of the driver that might have a fix in it ?
>>     
>
> Are you also running with preemption enabled?  We're having a very tough 
> time reproducing this bug in our lab, so no, we don't have any fix for it 
> yet.
>
> -PJ
>
>