Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:47:21 +0200 | From | Daniele Venzano <> | Subject | Re: [HANG] SIS900 + P4 Hyperthread |
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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 09:02:52PM +0000, Nigel Kukard wrote: > Hi, > > Using kernel 2.6.6 on a m/b with an builtin sis900 network adapter i get > a soft hang during HEAVY network traffic (ie. 7.5Mb/s). I tried to > enable sysrq to no avail. Keyboard is still active but any attempt to > run any command hangs. > > Disabling hyperthreading in the bios seems to solve the problem. I think > this is smp related. Disabling support in the kernel at compile time makes any difference ? Unfortunately I don't have any SMP hardware to try to reproduce this problem.
> When using 2.4.x all is ok with hyperthreading enabled. This is important. The driver has some differences between the two versions, but none of them is releated to SMP. I'll chack again, but if someone with some more smp-karma than me wants to join, he is most welcome... So I'm leaning towards blaming a problem outside the sis900 driver itself.
Thanks.
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