On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > It seems, we can start to think about some preferred solutions,
> > already. Here are some of my preliminary conclusions and suggestions.
> > 
> > The problem of timeouts with some 'older' network cards seems to hit
> > mainly x86_64 arch, and after diagnosing and testing (still beeing
> > done) it's caused by resending level type irqs.
> 
> i386 interrupt code should be similar, except for the lack of 
> per CPU irqs, but that shouldnt' affect resending.
> 
> > 
> > Possible solutions:
> 
> We should probably at least add some statistic counters to the
> standard kernel to try to detect these cases.
> 
> > It looks like these changes are needed for this x86_64 only,
> 
> Why?

Maybe I missed something, but considering the popularity of i386
there was not so much of consistent reporting?! I was very surprised,
when I read a few days ago that Linus seems to think that this one
here is only an individual problem...

Jarek P.
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