Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated?
Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:11:29 +0100
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to know _which_ of the two makes a difference (or does it only
> trigger with both of them enabled)? And even then I'm not sure that it is
> "the" solution - both changes to io-apic handling had some reason for
> them. Ingo, what was the focus-cpu thing?
>
Frank, please clarify:
you still run without disable_irq_nosync() in 8390.c?
I have a first idea: we send an EOI to an interrupt that is masked on
the IO apic, perhaps that causes the problems.
I'm right now typing a patch.
--
Manfred
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