From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:25:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:25:16 -0400 Received: from gecius-0.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.67.146]:14076 "EHLO maniac.gecius.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:25:04 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Longstanding APIC/NE2K bug In-Reply-To: <20010617000645.A2022@zarq.dhs.org> From: Jens Gecius Date: 17 Jun 2001 02:25:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20010617000645.A2022@zarq.dhs.org> (rc@zarq.dhs.org's message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2001 00:06:45 -0400") Message-ID: <87d783ei83.fsf@maniac.gecius.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org rc@zarq.dhs.org writes: > There has been a bug in the 2.4.x series of kernels for a long time (at > least -pre9) concerning SMP and ne2k-pci. > > Maciej W. Rozycki posted a patch back during 2.4.0 that fixed this problem > "[patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups" in late January. I've been > trying new kernels regularly since, and the patch doesn't seem to have > made it in (tested 2.4.2, .3, .4 and .5). Falling back on my patched > 2.4.0 works fine. > > Symptoms: Network driver locks up. Repeated messages of "ETH0: Transmit > timeout" occurs. Unloading and reloading network drivers does not help, > reboot is required. Usually only triggered by heavy network traffic > (300-400 megs at 700k or so usually does it). This fits exactly my problems I mentioned a couple weeks ago. Same question here. Therefore my question: can we expect to see this patch implemented? If not, any other suggestions? -- Tschoe, Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt