On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxx> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
