From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:04:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: forcedeth: Fix NAPI race. X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc3~70^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=78c29bd95bd8d2c3bcf7932cb3ab8ae01cd8f58f;p=pandora-kernel.git forcedeth: Fix NAPI race. Eric Dumazet a écrit : > Ingo Molnar a écrit : >>> The following changes since commit 52989765629e7d182b4f146050ebba0abf2cb0b7: >>> Linus Torvalds (1): >>> Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../davem/net-2.6 >>> >>> are available in the git repository at: >>> >>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git master >> Hm, something in this lot quickly wrecked networking here - see the >> tx timeout dump below. It starts with: >> >> [ 351.004596] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:246 dev_watchdog+0x10b/0x19c() >> [ 351.011815] Hardware name: System Product Name >> [ 351.016220] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (forcedeth): transmit queue 0 timed out >> >> Config attached. Unfortunately i've got no time to do bisection >> today. > > > > forcedeth might have a problem, in its netif_wake_queue() logic, but > I could not see why a recent patch could make this problem visible now. > > CPU0/1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02 > is not a new cpu either :) > > forcedeth uses an internal tx_stop without appropriate barrier. > > Could you try following patch ? > > (random guess as I dont have much time right now) We might have a race in napi_schedule(), leaving interrupts disabled forever. I cannot test this patch, I dont have the hardware... Tested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed