Re: 2.6.9 RCU breakage in dev_queue_xmit

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 13:15:20 EST


Jeff V. Merkey wrote:


Running dual gigabit interfaces at 196 MB/S (megabytes/second) on receive, 12 CLK interacket gap time, 1500 bytes payload
at 65000 packets per second per gigabit interface, and retransmitting received packets at 130 MB/S out of a third gigabit interface
with skb, RCU locks in dev_queue_xmit breaks and enters the following state:

Nov 8 15:38:08 ds kernel: Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:141
Nov 8 15:38:08 ds kernel: [<40107d1e>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x30
Nov 8 15:38:08 ds kernel: [<401218b0>] local_bh_enable+0x70/0x80
Nov 8 15:38:08 ds kernel: [<402c5bbb>] dev_queue_xmit+0x11b/0x250
Nov 8 15:38:08 ds kernel: [<f8981cb7>] xmit_skb+0x17/0x20 [dsfs]
Nov 8 15:38:08 ds kernel: [<f8981f8e>] xmit_packet+0x2e/0x80 [dsfs]
Nov 8 15:38:08 ds kernel: [<f89820eb>] regen_data+0x10b/0x290 [dsfs]

There is no such function in the 2.6.9 kernel.

Regards
Patrick

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