2004-09-02 15:26:33

by P.O. Gaillard

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Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q6 - network is no longer smooth

Ingo Molnar wrote:> * P.O. Gaillard <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I just tried with Q6 and the network behaviour seems odd :
>> - my ssh connection freezes a bit,
>> - communication between the two PCs sharing the GigE connection is
>> difficult to start :
>
>
> please try the -Q9 patch i just released, and if you still see any
> problems does the following:
>
> echo 300 > /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_backlog_granularity
>
> help?
>
Q9 just crashed after showing the login prompt. It says there is a kernel bug in
netdevice.h at line 874

The backtrace is :
finegrained_poll
net_rx_action
___do_soft_irq
_do_soft_irq
ksoftirqd
kthread
ksoftirqd
kthread
kernel_thread_helper

I have the following modules :
e1000
i2c_isa
i2c_sensor
w83627hf
asus_acpi



P.O. Gaillard