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

From: Lennert Buytenhek
Date: Sat Jan 10 2004 - 10:54:11 EST


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:17:40PM -0800, Feldman, Scott wrote:

> > > 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?
>
> Lennert, would you mind trying this patch to verify that problem is fixed?
>
> The driver was indicating skbs to the stack before h/w was done with the
> DMA. Not good. That's what causes the corruption. The stack free's the
> skb, and then h/w writes to it's data area.

AFAICS, didn't help, I still get the slab corruption. Anything else you
want me to try? Do you want me to send the klogd output I get now?


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