Re: Lockup with 2.6.9-ac15 related to netconsole

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 12:18, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:57:57PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > >Of course the patch is completely ugly and violates any layering
> > >principle one could think of. It was not submitted for inclusion :o)
> > 
> > Sure, but I think we should have a short-term workaround until
> > a better solution has been invented. Maybe dropping the packets
> > would be best for now, it only affects printks issued in paths
> > starting at qdisc_restart (-> hard_start_xmit -> ...). Queueing
> > the packets might also cause reordering since not all packets
> > are queued.
> 
> When I mentioned queueing, I was thinking of a netpoll-private queue
> that would be hooked to a softirq or some such so that it would be
> pushed out as soon as possible. Dropping may be the better approach 

I think so - just junk those packets. 

cheers,
jamal