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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@optushome.com.au>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel lockup in RTL-8169 gigabit ethernet driver
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:50:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040406225045.A7916@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4072E4B8.2070102@colorfullife.com>; from manfred@colorfullife.com on Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:11:20PM +0200

Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> :
[...]
> Thanks. The code reloads the tx ring value from memory, thus I don't 
> understand why it deadlocks.

Well...
- rtl8169_interrupt() acks all events before rtl8169_tx_interrupt() is called
- the count of descriptors handled in rtl8169_tx_interrupt() is only limited
  by the number of packets submitted for TX at the time rtl8169_tx_interrupt()
  is called

-> if there is a stream of Tx events, it is possible that Tx descriptors are
   processed before the relevant event is notified to the host by the network
   adapter.

--
Ueimor

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-06 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-03 11:30 Manfred Spraul
2004-04-03 12:45 ` Francois Romieu
2004-04-04  0:55 ` Malvineous
2004-04-04  9:15   ` Francois Romieu
2004-04-05 21:51     ` Adam Nielsen
2004-04-06 17:11       ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-06 20:50         ` Francois Romieu [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-05 23:08 Dieter Nützel
2004-04-06  7:47 ` Francois Romieu
2004-04-03  5:02 Adam Nielsen
2004-04-03  9:27 ` Francois Romieu
2004-04-03 10:07   ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-03 12:13     ` Francois Romieu

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