Re: Hard freeze with 2.6.10-rc3 and QoS, worked fine with 2.6.9

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:21:54 +0100
Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> >I don't know if this is related but something broke netem after 2.6.10-rc2
> >Now a simple request to delay 10ms ends up taking 1000ms.
> >
> >Still narrowing down the changeset, but it isn't a change in netem
> >or tc utils since these didn't change.
> >
> >  
> >
> I can't find anything in the Changelog that looks related.
> Can you give me a testcase ?

I think the problem was a missing poke (qdisc_restart) in the netem timer
routine, it probably worked earlier for me on other hardware because I was
using different hardware that was waking up and checking tx in response
to received packets.