Re: [2.6.0-mm2] e100 driver hangs after period of moderate receive load

[Lennert Buytenhek]

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?


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