[snip] > I haven't seen that, but there's a soft-lockup in KNI in DPDK 1.6. Here's > what I posted about that one a few weeks ago: > > Found the problem. No patch to submit since it's already fixed in later > versions of DPDK, but thought I'd follow up with the details since I'm sure > we aren't the only ones trying to use bleeding-edge versions of DPDK... > > In kni_net_rx_normal(), it was calling netif_receive_skb() instead of > netif_rx(). The source for netif_receive_skb() point out that it should only > be called from soft-irq context, which isn't the case for KNI. > > As typical, simple fix once you track it down. > > Yao-Po Wang's fix: commit 41a6ebded53982107c1adfc0652d6cc1375a7db9.
I noticed that posting, but KNI is not involved here...thanks!
