Re: [2.6.0-mm2] e100 driver hangs after period of moderate receive load

From: Lennert Buytenhek (buytenh_at_gnu.org)
Date: 12/31/03

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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

    On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 07:11:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

    > >After banging on an e100 card for about ten minutes with a ~60kpps stream,
    > >the interface stops receiving packets. Interrupts come in once every few
    > >seconds (from /proc/interrupts), but no packets are received anymore at
    > >all.
    > >Lots of slab corruption messages in the syslog that were generated during
    > >that packet stream (see other email I sent.) Stopping the packet stream
    > >still leaves the interface unusable. 'ifconfig eth1 down ; ifconfig eth1
    > >up'
    > >seems to fix things.
    >
    > Is NAPI enabled for this driver? The interrupt behavior seems normal
    > for NAPI, but certainly the rest of the behavior does not...

    Yes, NAPI was indeed enabled.

    I 'went back' to 2.6.1-rc1 and that seems fine now. Any patches you want
    me to try on top of 2.6.0-mm2?

    --L
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