Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:34:46 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.0-mm2] e100 driver hangs after period of moderate receive load |
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Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 07:11:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>>After banging on an e100 card for about ten minutes with a ~60kpps stream, >>>the interface stops receiving packets. Interrupts come in once every few >>>seconds (from /proc/interrupts), but no packets are received anymore at >>>all. >>>Lots of slab corruption messages in the syslog that were generated during >>>that packet stream (see other email I sent.) Stopping the packet stream >>>still leaves the interface unusable. 'ifconfig eth1 down ; ifconfig eth1 >>>up' >>>seems to fix things. >> >>Is NAPI enabled for this driver? The interrupt behavior seems normal >>for NAPI, but certainly the rest of the behavior does not... > > > Yes, NAPI was indeed enabled. > > I 'went back' to 2.6.1-rc1 and that seems fine now. Any patches you want > me to try on top of 2.6.0-mm2?
Well, the two are vastly different, since -mm2 includes a complete rewrite of e100.
Does disabling NAPI in -mm2 change anything?
Jeff
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