Holger Hoffstätte <hol...@applied-asynchrony.com> : [...] > I continued to use the BQL patch in my private tree after it was reverted > and also had occasional timeouts, but *only* after I started playing > with ethtool to change offload settings. Without offloads or the BQL patch > everything has been rock-solid since then. > The other weird problem was that timeouts would occur on an otherwise > *completely idle* system. Since that occasionally borked my NFS server > over night I ultimately removed BQL as well. Rock-solid since then.
The bug will induce delayed rx processing when a spike of "load" is followed by an idle period. I do not see how bql would matter per se though. -- Ueimor
