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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:30:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: ... > My guess is that it is a race between polling the device and irq pushing > the packet. That is, normally the IRQ handler wins and netpoll doesn't > have anything to do and it doesn't traverse this code path. > > (although I must admit to being a little out of my depth here) Probably you're right but there were really a lot of testing and stressing netconsole for misterious lockups for quite a long time with this new napi, so it's hard to believe this was hidden so well... Jarek P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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