Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Don't use skb after dev_queue_xmit()

From: Michael Breuer
Date: Fri Jan 08 2010 - 16:48:51 EST


On 1/8/2010 4:29 PM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:40:25AM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote:
On 1/8/2010 2:45 AM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
Berck Nash reported oopses during sky2 TX timeout recovery, which are
generally hardware/driver problems, and shouldn't be triggered by ip
level bugs, so it should be queried as a separate bug report.

My thought was that his crash was secondary to the netdev watchdog & subsequent reset that I saw.
Will try rerunning without disable_msi later (after I catch the dns
thing in the sniffer).
I'm leaving this one running for now. Not retesting jumbo for now. Be
happy to help dig further.

Tentative recommendations:

1) The af alternative patch seems rather necessary. First alternative
seems to be working, I'd suggest that be submitted and backported to
2.6.32.
BTW, don't hurry with that yet, but in the next test, please try
alternative 2 again (i.e. with MMAP + no DMAR + disable_msi).

Will do - still up from yesterday... no more dropped packets... none of the dns errors either. To be expected I suppose as long as I'm trying to sniff it. Assuming no immediate erorrs with alt2, no DMAR + disable_msi I'll report back after it's been up for a while.
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