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From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
To: "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.2 crash after network link failure
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:11:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040210141118.GA14719@vana.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C6F5CF431189FA4CBAEC9E7DD5441E0102CBDE6C@orsmsx402.jf.intel.com>

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:37:48PM -0800, Feldman, Scott wrote:
> > I think what might be happening is that somehow the TX queue 
> > is corrupted if
> > e100_config() runs (due to link UP state change) while there 
> > are active normal SKB packets on the TX queue.  Or perhaps 
> > some TX queue handling locking issue.
> > 
> > Scott, any ideas?
> 
> e100 hardware will continue to process the hardware's Tx queue even
> after link is lost, and then cleanup (return skbs) on interrupt.  I
> would expect e100 to be holding no Tx skbs when link returned.
> 
> Petr, -mm kernel has an updated (and much simpler) e100 driver.  Is this
> something you can try?  The switch failure can be simulated by manually
> plugging the cable in/out.

Unfortunately it does not seem easily triggerable. I spent about one
hour plugging/unplugging cable while transmitting UDP packets as fast
as possible, sometime interleaved with 'mii-tool -r', and it refused
to crash...
						Petr Vandrovec


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-10 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-09 23:37 Feldman, Scott
2004-02-10 14:11 ` Petr Vandrovec [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-09 13:01 Petr Vandrovec
2004-02-09 22:28 ` David S. Miller

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