From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
Mark Broadbent <markb@wetlettuce.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Lockup with 2.6.9-ac15 related to netconsole
Date: 28 Dec 2004 08:45:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1104241519.1089.79.camel@jzny.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041222171836.GL5974@waste.org>
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 12:18, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:57:57PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > >Of course the patch is completely ugly and violates any layering
> > >principle one could think of. It was not submitted for inclusion :o)
> >
> > Sure, but I think we should have a short-term workaround until
> > a better solution has been invented. Maybe dropping the packets
> > would be best for now, it only affects printks issued in paths
> > starting at qdisc_restart (-> hard_start_xmit -> ...). Queueing
> > the packets might also cause reordering since not all packets
> > are queued.
>
> When I mentioned queueing, I was thinking of a netpoll-private queue
> that would be hooked to a softirq or some such so that it would be
> pushed out as soon as possible. Dropping may be the better approach
I think so - just junk those packets.
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-28 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 16:20 Mark Broadbent
2004-12-16 21:10 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-17 9:10 ` Mark Broadbent
2004-12-17 21:57 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-17 23:35 ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-18 13:25 ` Mark Broadbent
2004-12-20 9:42 ` Mark Broadbent
2004-12-20 21:14 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-21 0:22 ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-21 0:55 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-21 10:23 ` Mark Broadbent
2004-12-21 12:37 ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-21 13:29 ` Mark Broadbent
2004-12-21 20:48 ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-21 21:27 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-21 22:58 ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-22 9:34 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-22 10:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-22 12:39 ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-22 13:33 ` jamal
2004-12-22 14:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-22 17:18 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-25 11:26 ` Wish you all a Merry Christmas Pranav
2004-12-25 11:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-28 13:45 ` jamal [this message]
2004-12-22 14:37 ` Lockup with 2.6.9-ac15 related to netconsole Mark Broadbent
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