Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 3 authors, 2007-11-30

Re: net_rx_action/NAPI oops [PATCH]

From: Robert Olsson <hidden>
Date: 2007-11-28 12:59:44

Stephen Hemminger writes:

 > It is considered a driver bug in 2.6.24 to call netif_rx_complete (clear NAPI_STATE_SCHED)
 > and do a full quota. That bug already had to be fixed in other drivers,
 > look like e1000 has same problem.

 From what I see the problem is not related to ->poll. But it's a variant of the same theme
 here it's napi_disable in  XXXX_down via ifconfig down that clears NAPI_STATE_SCHED while
 driver delivers a full quota.
 
 Cheers
						--ro
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