Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-07-04 Thread Nix
On 4 Jul 2009, n...@esperi.org.uk outgrape: > On 1 Jul 2009, Jesse Brandeburg spake thusly: > >> Just FYI, our development tree is internal only for our out of tree >> driver, but we send patches to the kernel ASAP, after they have passed >> testing. > > Aha! So... is it worth reporting bugs in ma

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-07-04 Thread Nix
On 1 Jul 2009, Jesse Brandeburg spake thusly: > Just FYI, our development tree is internal only for our out of tree > driver, but we send patches to the kernel ASAP, after they have passed > testing. Aha! So... is it worth reporting bugs in mainline that aren't in evidence when using the out-of-t

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-07-01 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
@lists.sourceforge.net; Lal Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault) On 2 Jun 2009, Waskiewicz Jr said: > http://e1000.sf.net What about a git tree so we can use -rc kernels without having to redo forward-porting work t

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-06-06 Thread Nix
On 2 Jun 2009, Waskiewicz Jr said: > http://e1000.sf.net What about a git tree so we can use -rc kernels without having to redo forward-porting work that someone else has probably already done? There must *be* a dev tree somewhere but so far I've had no success figuring out where. -

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-06-02 Thread Tantilov, Emil S
r.ker...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:05 AM >> To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation >> (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault) >> >>> My original speculations were wron

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-06-02 Thread Lal
009 12:05 AM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and > x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault) > >> My original speculations were wrong: it goes wrong with 32-bit as well >> as 64-bit kernels. The key is that it o

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-06-02 Thread Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
http://e1000.sf.net Cheers, PJ Waskiewicz peter.p.waskiewicz...@intel.com -Original Message- From: Lal [mailto:learner.ker...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:05 AM To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-06-02 Thread Lal
> My original speculations were wrong: it goes wrong with 32-bit as well > as 64-bit kernels. The key is that it only ever goes wrong with the > in-tree driver. When I compiled the faulty kernels (32- and 64-bit), I > forgot to copy the out-of-tree driver into place. Use the out-of-tree > driver, a

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault)

2009-06-01 Thread Nix
On 1 Jun 2009, David Miller uttered the following: > From: Nix > Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:16:26 +0100 > >> I plan to try out 2.6.29 (and back to 2.6.25 or thereabouts) tomorrow >> and see if it ever worked: if it did I'll bisect for it (rendered tricky >> by the out-of-tree e1000e driver, but do