Re: [PATCH 0/8] netpoll: various bugfixes

[Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[corrected akpm's address]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Thu, Aug 11, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > This patch series cleans up a few outstanding bugs in netpoll:
> > 
> > - two bugfixes from Jeff Moyer's netpoll bonding
> > - a tweak to e1000's netpoll stub
> > - timeout handling for e1000 with carrier loss
> > - prefilling SKBs at init
> > - a fix-up for a race discovered in initialization
> > - an unused variable warning
> 
> Matt, I have tested them, the sender doesnt lockup anymore. But a
> task dump doesnt work, I get only the first task. This is on a 3GHz xeon
> with tg3 card.

Does the task dump work without patch 5/8 (add retry timeout)? I'll
try testing it here.

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