Re: 1000ms delay in networking stack or driver, new bug?

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:21:56 -0500 (CDT)


On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> > Ok, I've managed to reproduce this.
>
> Thank you very much. Seems, I found the reason.
> Please, try this patch.
>
> --- ../orig/linux/net/sched/sch_generic.c Sun Mar 21 17:41:05 1999
> +++ linux/net/sched/sch_generic.c Thu Sep 23 20:43:33 1999
> @@ -399,6 +399,8 @@
> if (!del_timer(&dev_watchdog))
> dev_watchdog.expires = jiffies + 5*HZ;
> add_timer(&dev_watchdog);
> + if (dev->qdisc->h.forw)
> + printk("BUG on dev %s\n", dev->name);
> }
> end_bh_atomic();
> }
> @@ -419,6 +421,7 @@
> for (hp = &qdisc_head.forw; (h = *hp) != &qdisc_head; hp = &h->forw) {
> if (h == &qdisc->h) {
> *hp = h->forw;
> + h->forw = NULL;
> break;
> }
> }

That does indeed appear to fix it. The first couple pings returned after
the network restarts may be delayed a bit, but it quickly settles into
normal behaviour.

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