Re: Kernel 3.7.2 strange warning and short system hang

2013-02-22 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi, thanks for your help. I patched my kernel yesterday. Now I have to wait some days. The error occurs not periodically. If it occurs again I let you now. many thanks Urban On 20.02.2013 17:52, Eric Dumazet wrote: On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 17:10 +0100, Urban Loesch wrote: Hi, today I had a str

Re: Kernel 3.7.2 strange warning and short system hang

2013-02-20 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 12:57 -0500, David Miller wrote: > I've seen this pattern on several occasions and I have to wonder... > > Do we really require, therefore, every NAPI driver to use dev_kfree_skb_any() > in it's TX reclaim if it supports netpoll? > > That seems completely bogus. > > netp

Re: Kernel 3.7.2 strange warning and short system hang

2013-02-20 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:52:56 -0800 > I guess tg3 needs to call dev_kfree_skb_any() > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c > b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c > index bdb0869..22d9e44 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c > +++ b/drivers/net/e

Re: Kernel 3.7.2 strange warning and short system hang

2013-02-20 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 17:10 +0100, Urban Loesch wrote: > Hi, > > today I had a strange system hang on one of our new Dell PER620 machines. > I'm running a self compiled kernel, version 3.7.2 with linux vserver patch > included. > > uname -a > Linux dbhost04 3.7.2-vs2.3.5.5-rol-em64t #4 SMP Sun F

Kernel 3.7.2 strange warning and short system hang

2013-02-20 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi, today I had a strange system hang on one of our new Dell PER620 machines. I'm running a self compiled kernel, version 3.7.2 with linux vserver patch included. uname -a Linux dbhost04 3.7.2-vs2.3.5.5-rol-em64t #4 SMP Sun Feb 3 14:08:37 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux 15min. systemload between 1-