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

[Jeff Garzik]

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



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