Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:02 -0800 (PST)
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To: elendil@planet.nl
Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, slavon@bigtelecom.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:51:55 +0100

> On Thursday 17 January 2008, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
> >
> > > We spent Wednesday trying to reproduce (without the patch) these issues
> > > without much luck, and have applied the patch cleanly and will continue
> > > testing it.  Given the simplicity of the changes, and the community
> > > testing, I'll give my ack and we will continue testing.
> >
> > You need a slow CPU, and you need to make sure you do actually
> > trigger the TX limiting code there.
> 
> Hmmm. Is a dual core Pentium D 3.20GHz considered slow these days?

No of course :-)  I guess it therefore depends upon the load
as well.
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