Donald Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Mr M S Aitchison wrote:
>> Subject: "eth0: Re-entering the ..." lockup with tulip.c:v0.98H
>>
>> We've started getting frequent lockups on a 2.0.35 SMP kernel dual
>> Pentium II with the repeated error message:
[dd]
>This is NOT a driver bug. It's a bug in the SMP code.
[dd]
>The following fix was suggested by Loic Prylli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[dd : for 2.0.35]
Is anybody looking into the same problem with the 2.1 series? I still have the
the re-entering problem with tulip, 3c905B and rtl8139 cards, and I suspect
an aic7xxx-problem 'timed out in interrupt handler' is of the same origin.
This happens up to 2.1.125, after 1 hour of heavy net traffic, or about 2
days for the SCSI-problem.
(I cannot test 2.1.126 since the new aic7xxx code tries to forcibly use my
newsspool 8-bit, 10MB Conner hd at 20MB which yields only parity errors :|)
Hardware: Gigabyte 686DLX, 2x266MHz P-II (builtin AIC7xxx)
4.5Gb DHCS IBM hd, 1GB Conner HD
ancient ISA VGA card
choice of 3c903B, DEC21140AF tulip or RTL8139 10/100 Network card
ISA NE2000 network card
IDE CDROM drive
My ugly fix that keeps the machine up in SMP mode was to force the AIC and the
Network adapter to use the XT-PIC instead of the APIC (in 2.1.120, after that
the APIC-code change does not allow my straightforward kludge.). This way
the machine has been happily running for >=2 weeks.
BTW: I still have a horribly skewed clock, that even xntpd is unable to
stabilize; sometimes I experience a drift of +10 Minutes/30 Minutes real time,
these jumps coming in large chunks associated sudded changes in the load level
(I mean: if the load changes suddenly, the clock sometimes jumps; example:
INN running its expire at night).
I hope there will be a fix before 2.2...
later
Utz
[ready to send more detailed info upon request]
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