Hi Kevin, Months later, I've applied this patch. Thanks very much for it! I hope that e1000-7.x is working for you, if you haven't given up on us in the meantime.
Eddie Kevin Lahey wrote: > When starting up multithreaded Click-1.5.0 under network load on e1000s, > I've been seeing some repeatable crashes. If the system is already > getting packets at a high rate, it'll crash when it turns polling on. > This appears to be due to a race condition with the NAPI receive ring > cleanup routines. > > Turning off NAPI doesn't work, because then the system winds up in > livelock and won't start Click; using netif_poll_disable to > turn off NAPI in e1000_poll_on similarly seems to delay starting Click. > I've attached a fairly weak attempt at a patch for this. > > There's also a few lines that ensure that e1000_poll_on compiles under > Linux 2.4. I verified that it still compiles on 2.6. I also tried this > out under Click from CVS; the patch seemed to work okay for e1000-5.x, > although I seem to recall that I saw some crashes on Click uninstall > with the analogous changes to e1000-6.x. > > Thanks, > > Kevin Lahey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > click mailing list > [email protected] > https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click _______________________________________________ click mailing list [email protected] https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click
