Re: (no more) Solid freezes with 2.2.4

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:19:35 +0100 (BST)

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> * Protect the irq test too.
> */
>
> + start_bh_atomic();
> spin_lock(&ei_local->page_lock);

This is wrong. Network transmits are always done bh_atomic. If this makes
a difference something in the network stack is deeply screwed

See dev_queue_xmit.

Alan

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