Re: Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash", (was: Re:Linux 2.6.29)

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 20:53:30 EST


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:02:41PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > What's the NIC and config on this one? If it's still using the
> > legacy/netif_rx path, where GRO is off by default, this patch
> > should make it exactly the same as with my original patch
> > reverted.
>
> Same forcedeth box i reported before. Config below. (note: if you
> want to use it you need to run it through 'make oldconfig', with all
> defaults accepted)
>
> CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y
> CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI=y

This means that we shouldn't even invoke netif_rx/process_backlog,
so something else is going on.

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