On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:15:50PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >That's odd. Netpoll holds a reference to the device, of course, but so
> >does a normal "up" interface. So that shouldn't be the problem.
> >Another possibility is that outgoing packets from printks in the
> >driver are causing difficulty. Not sure what can be done about that.
> >
> Here's a patch. I haven't tested it beyond compiling it, and I don't
> know if it is actually correct. In this case, it seems pointless to
> spin waiting for an even which will never happen. Should
> netif_poll_disable() cause netpoll_send_skb() (or something) to not even
> bother trying to send? netif_poll_disable seems mysteriously simple to me.
>
> J
Did this work for you at all?
> When transmitting a skb in netpoll_send_skb(), only retry a limited
> number of times if the device queue is stopped.
Where limited = once?
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> diff -r aac813f54617 net/core/netpoll.c
> --- a/net/core/netpoll.c Wed Jun 07 14:53:40 2006 -0700
> +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c Thu Jun 08 19:00:29 2006 -0700
> @@ -280,15 +280,10 @@ static void netpoll_send_skb(struct netp
> * network drivers do not expect to be called if the queue is
> * stopped.
> */
> - if (netif_queue_stopped(np->dev)) {
> - np->dev->xmit_lock_owner = -1;
> - spin_unlock(&np->dev->xmit_lock);
> - netpoll_poll(np);
> - udelay(50);
> - continue;
> - }
> -
> - status = np->dev->hard_start_xmit(skb, np->dev);
> + status = NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
> + if (!netif_queue_stopped(np->dev))
> + status = np->dev->hard_start_xmit(skb, np->dev);
> +
> np->dev->xmit_lock_owner = -1;
> spin_unlock(&np->dev->xmit_lock);
>
>
>
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