From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.0-mm2] e100 driver hangs after period of moderate receive load
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:34:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF2C266.8010104@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031231122155.GA13323@gnu.org>
Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 07:11:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>>After banging on an e100 card for about ten minutes with a ~60kpps stream,
>>>the interface stops receiving packets. Interrupts come in once every few
>>>seconds (from /proc/interrupts), but no packets are received anymore at
>>>all.
>>>Lots of slab corruption messages in the syslog that were generated during
>>>that packet stream (see other email I sent.) Stopping the packet stream
>>>still leaves the interface unusable. 'ifconfig eth1 down ; ifconfig eth1
>>>up'
>>>seems to fix things.
>>
>>Is NAPI enabled for this driver? The interrupt behavior seems normal
>>for NAPI, but certainly the rest of the behavior does not...
>
>
> Yes, NAPI was indeed enabled.
>
> I 'went back' to 2.6.1-rc1 and that seems fine now. Any patches you want
> me to try on top of 2.6.0-mm2?
Well, the two are vastly different, since -mm2 includes a complete
rewrite of e100.
Does disabling NAPI in -mm2 change anything?
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-31 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 11:02 Lennert Buytenhek
2003-12-31 12:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-31 12:21 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2003-12-31 12:34 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-01-01 2:21 ` Thomas Molina
2004-01-01 10:27 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-01-10 15:49 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-01-05 0:25 Feldman, Scott
[not found] <C6F5CF431189FA4CBAEC9E7DD5441E01034D50AD@orsmsx402.jf.intel.com>
2004-01-10 1:17 ` Feldman, Scott
2004-01-10 15:51 ` Lennert Buytenhek
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