Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Sep 2004 06:04:07 -0500 | From | "K.R. Foley" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-R0 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > i've released the -R0 patch: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-R0 > > ontop of: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/diff-bk-040828-2.6.8.1.bz2 > > i've given up on the netdev_backlog_granularity approach, and as a > replacement i've modified specific network drivers to return at a safe > point if softirq preemption is requested. This gives the same end result > but is more robust. For the time being i've fixed 8193too.c and e100.c. > (will fix up other drivers too as latencies get reported) > > this should fix the crash reported by P.O. Gaillard, and it should solve > the packet delay/loss issues reported by Mark H Johnson. I cannot see > any problems on my rtl8193 testbox anymore. > > Ingo >
Last night when rebooting on R0 for the first time, my system locked up. It appears to have happened the first time trying to send/recv any real data over the e100 interface when ntp was starting up. Will try to investigate further a little later.
kr
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