Re: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > This should hit machines with 2GB ram too, right?
> > Is it possible to find if it hits me? I get hard lockups on
> > 2GB machine with b44, but they take ~5min.. few hours to
> > reproduce...
> >  
> > It seems to me like this should hit very quickly.
> > -- 
> > 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         
> > 
> Yikes!
> 
> With the 4:4 VM split it definately is instantaneous with > 1GB of memory, I
> triggered it with 1.25G myself and never noticed anything wrong with just
> 1GB (allocation starts from the top it seems). With the standard 1:3 split I
> don't think anything > 1GB ever gets used for skbuffs, but maybe there
> are circumstances where this can happen? 

Okay, this is probably other problem. When the bug hit, what are the symptoms?

> (Or the issue isn't fully understood yet, figuring out what breaks and what
> doesn't was basically just trial and error :-/ )

Can you try the driver from broadcom? bcom4400, or how is it
called. Its extremely ugly, but might get this kind of stuff right...

								Pavel
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