Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.9 RCU breakage in dev_queue_xmit | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:48:22 +1100 |
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Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@drdos.com> wrote: > > Running dual gigabit interfaces at 196 MB/S (megabytes/second) on > receive, 12 CLK interacket gap time, 1500 bytes payload > at 65000 packets per second per gigabit interface, and retransmitting > received packets at 130 MB/S out of a third gigabit interface > with skb, RCU locks in dev_queue_xmit breaks and enters the following state:
This patch might help. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- # This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch. # # ChangeSet # 2004/11/01 17:41:19-08:00 mingo@elte.hu # [NET]: Fix unbalanced local_bh_enable() in dev_queue_xmit() # # Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> # Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> # # net/core/dev.c # 2004/11/01 17:40:59-08:00 mingo@elte.hu +5 -6 # [NET]: Fix unbalanced local_bh_enable() in dev_queue_xmit() # # Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> # Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> # diff -Nru a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c --- a/net/core/dev.c 2004-11-10 12:45:48 +11:00 +++ b/net/core/dev.c 2004-11-10 12:45:48 +11:00 @@ -1261,6 +1261,11 @@ struct Qdisc *q; int rc = -ENOMEM; + /* Disable soft irqs for various locks below. Also + * stops preemption for RCU. + */ + local_bh_disable(); + if (skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list && !(dev->features & NETIF_F_FRAGLIST) && __skb_linearize(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)) @@ -1284,12 +1289,6 @@ skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_IP)))) if (skb_checksum_help(skb, 0)) goto out_kfree_skb; - - - /* Disable soft irqs for various locks below. Also - * stops preemption for RCU. - */ - local_bh_disable(); /* Updates of qdisc are serialized by queue_lock. * The struct Qdisc which is pointed to by qdisc is now a - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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