From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935992AbXGSRxv (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:53:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965263AbXGSRxN (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:53:13 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:34147 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965213AbXGSRxL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:53:11 -0400 From: Olaf Kirch Organization: Oracle To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:51:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Jarek Poplawski , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, Auke Kok References: <20070716091236.GA10718@elte.hu> <20070719160556.GA3330@elte.hu> <200707191936.12646.olaf.kirch@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <200707191936.12646.olaf.kirch@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707191951.15675.olaf.kirch@oracle.com> X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 19 July 2007 19:36, Olaf Kirch wrote: > Can you confirm this by spraying the laptop with arp packets > or broadcast pings while it's booting? Sorry for the noise - didn't see your other message where you described just that. This sounds more like a hardware issue - Rx interrupt seems to go through (triggering all the usual NAPI cleanup), but the Tx descriptor writeback interrupt doesn't. Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play okir@lst.de | / | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah kin.ir.samse.qurax