Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:05:59 +0100 | From | Frank de Lange <> | Subject | Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? |
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:59:25AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Could this really be the solution? > > I'd like to know _which_ of the two makes a difference (or does it only > trigger with both of them enabled)? And even then I'm not sure that it is > "the" solution - both changes to io-apic handling had some reason for > them. Ingo, what was the focus-cpu thing?
Well, with 'this' (in 'could THIS be') I really meant the move from disable_irq to the irq_safe spinlocks. I'm currently running with the patched 8390.c driver, patched io_apic (TARGET_CPUS 0xff) and patched apic.c (focus cpu enabled), and have had no problems yet... even though I'm running several simulatnsous nfs cp -rd <big_dir>, streaming network audio, scanning with an USB scanner, etc.
So far, it seems that the patch to 8390.c removed the symptoms. The changes to apic.c and io_apic.c did not make the network hang come back.
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