Tx request while isr active.

Gyula Matics (mgyula@garfield.sch.bme.hu)
Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:52:32 +0200 (MET DST)

With 2.1.43 i still get those messages scrolling over my screen and lockup on
my SMP box with 2 ethernet cards. (WD8013 + SMC Ultra) I always had these
lockups since about 2.1.31.

Per Linus request (back in April, 2.1.3[1234] days) i tried adding
synchronize_irq() calls in 8390.c after the lines where IRQs from the card has
been disabled and it seemed to help (i.e. i can't lockup the machine with two
simultanious ping -f and the machine was running for more than 24 hours) but i
still was getting

eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x1 imr=0x0.
eth1: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x2 imr=0x0.

and i know that my 'fix' is far from beeing complete. The machine was locked
hard this morning. (i can't check that it was the same lockup as before)

Gyula

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