Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:14:14 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.47 tulip lockup |
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kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > Hello! > > > There is a known softnet bug, that should be fixed in 2.3.48. I am not > > sure if that is the problem here though. Is this alpha an SMP box? > > Jeff, please, remove spin lock from outl_CSR6(). > > Probably, it is some useful spinlock, but its main result is inevitable > deadlock at the first more-or-less unusual event.
It's old code from tulip_cb, and it's already gone... :) The driver just got an SMP locking overhaul, which fixed several bugs, including the one Andrea mentions.
Jeff
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