Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765025AbXHJJC4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:02:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756794AbXHJJCo (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:02:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.go2.pl ([193.17.41.42]:60096 "EHLO poczta.o2.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757051AbXHJJCm (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:02:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:03:18 +0200 From: Jarek Poplawski To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean-Baptiste Vignaud , "marcin\.slusarz" , tglx , torvalds , linux-kernel , shemminger , linux-net , netdev , akpm , alan Subject: Re: [patch (testing)] Re: 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after random time Message-ID: <20070810090318.GG1764@ff.dom.local> References: <20070810083720.GE1764@ff.dom.local> <20070810084841.GA11086@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070810084841.GA11086@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1678 Lines: 46 On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:48:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:15:53AM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Vignaud wrote: > > ... > > > I was still testing on -rc2: > > > Subject: [patch] genirq: temporary fix for level-triggered IRQ resend > > > Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:00:37 +0200 > > > > > > For me after 1day 20hours, the network is still up, with more than > > > 1To of network traffic. HZ was 1000, i restart with HZ=100. > > > > For me it's enough too but Thomas seems to doubt. > > seem to doubt what? That rc2 fixes the symptom? That is a sure thing, > and we never doubted that. I think you might have misunderstood what > Thomas said and meant, so please just state your opinion unambiguously > so that we can fix any mis-communication :) > > Ingo > On 25-07-2007 02:19, Thomas Gleixner wrote: ... > Actually we only need the resend for edge type interrupts. Level type > interrupts come back once enable_irq() re-enables the interrupt line. > On 10-08-2007 10:05, Thomas Gleixner wrote: ... > But suppressing the resend is not fixing the driver problem. The problem > can show up with spurious interrupts and with interrupts on a shared PCI > interrupt line at any time. It just might take weeks instead of minutes. Maybe I miss something but it's not the same! So, should Jean-Baptiste or Marcin test this for weeks or it's enough? Jarek P. - 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/