Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:59:25 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? |
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:33:15PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > Frank, the 2.4.0 contains 2 band aids that were added for ne2k smp: > > > > * From Ingo: focus cpu disabled, in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c > > * From myself: TARGET_CPU = cpu_online_mask, was 0xFF. > > > > Could you disable both bandaids? I disabled them, no problems so far. > > I disabled both (I guess you meant the 'define TARGET_CPUS cpu_online' in > io_apic.c?), and reverted my own patch, added your patch... Now running with > the usual heavy network load, no problems so far... Also made USB produce > interrupts (shares irq with network), no problems... > > 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?
Linus
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