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From"Rafael J. Wysocki" <>
SubjectRe: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10326] New: inconsistent lock state in net_rx_action
DateThu, 27 Mar 2008 22:56:49 +0100
On Thursday, 27 of March 2008, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> 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...

I assume there will be a patch posted for this issue.  Correct?

Rafael
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