Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jul 18 2007 - 08:42:07 EST



* Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 20:56, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i logged these not via netconsole but via logging on over the console
> > and using dmesg, so it should include everything. in the 100hz case the
> > following seems to show the anomaly:
> >
> > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
>
> So, it seems as if for some reason, dev->poll isn't called frequently
> enough.
>
> Here's a debugging patch that tries to locate the problem - can you
> give it a try, please?

sure, give me a minute.

Ingo
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