Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:49:28 +0100 | From | Jarek Poplawski <> | Subject | Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10326] New: inconsistent lock state in net_rx_action |
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:30:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: ... > My guess is that it is a race between polling the device and irq pushing > the packet. That is, normally the IRQ handler wins and netpoll doesn't > have anything to do and it doesn't traverse this code path. > > (although I must admit to being a little out of my depth here)
Probably you're right but there were really a lot of testing and stressing netconsole for misterious lockups for quite a long time with this new napi, so it's hard to believe this was hidden so well...
Jarek P.
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