Re: SiS900: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping

[Dominik Karall]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 17:26, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Dominik Karall wrote:
> > After a few hours my network doesn't work on my laptop. There appear a
> > lot of those messages:
> >
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> > eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
> >
> > It works again after restarting network. I'm using 2.6.8-rc2 now. It was
> > the same problem in 2.6.7, but I didn't test it with earlier kernels.
>
> A NULL appears when the machine is temporarily unable to allocate room
> for a new skb.  Your machine's atomic memory pools are getting too low...
>
> 	Jeff

Yes, I took a look at the code and found the debug message. But isn't there 
any way to avoid network stop working? Because after a network restart it 
works again, maybe there could be used any "soft reset" to make network 
working again after such an error.

Dominik
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