On 14 Aug 2004, Mikko Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the link to the patch. I'll try it if I can find the time. > > Martin Pool writes: > > On 10 Aug 2004, Mikko Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I tried distcc 2.17 with the environment variables DISTCC_MMAP=0 > > > DISTCC_SENDFILE=0 DISTCC_TCP_CORK=0 set. I still kernel panics on the > > > latest Fedora Core 1 kernel. This time the ethernet driver int the > > > panicked system was 3c59x. > > > > That's no good; that means it's probably not the same bug as before. > > Do you get an oops or some other backtrace from the kerne? You should > > probably report it to the kernel list. > > > > I'm no kernel programmer, but as far as I can see the problem (and the > patch) is in page allocation during zero-copy operations, so the bug > could affect any driver that does zero-copy, right? Certainly I see > exactly the same behaviour with both e1000 and 3c59x.
Right. With both mmap and sendfile turned off I don't think there are any zerocopy operations taking place though, so that's why I am afraid it might be a different bug. -- Martin
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