Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:56:54 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:53:26 -0400
> Any suggestions on how I could figure out what was really going on and > what would be a better fix would be greatly appreciated.
As Michael explained, it's the ASF heartbeat sent by tg3_timer() that must be delivered to the chip within certain timing constraints.
If you had any watchdog devices on this machine, they would likely trigger too and reset your machine :) - 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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