Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4628] New: Test server hang while running rhr (network) test on RHEL4 with kernel 2.6.12-rc1-mm4

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:43:02AM -0700, Ganesh Venkatesan wrote:
>
> > @@ -1708,11 +1778,15 @@ err_rx_clean_list:
> >
> > static void e100_down(struct nic *nic)
> > {
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_E100_NAPI
> > +       /* wait here for poll to complete */
> > +       netif_poll_disable(nic->netdev);
> > +#endif
>
> Sorry, you can't do that here since you're in softirq context and
> netif_poll_disable may sleep.
I think the intention is that e100_down() may sleep, from looking at all 
the callsites.
Only e100_tx_timeout() calls it in a context that prevents sleep.

        Jeff