Re: [PATCH] DM9000: fix interface hang under load

2007-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Florian Westphal wrote: When transferring data at full speed, the DM9000 network interface sometimes stops sending/receiving data. Worse, ksoftirqd consumes 100% cpu and the net tx watchdog never triggers. Fix by spin_lock_irqsave() in dm9000_start_xmit() to prevent the interrupt handler from

[PATCH] DM9000: fix interface hang under load

2007-08-20 Thread Florian Westphal
When transferring data at full speed, the DM9000 network interface sometimes stops sending/receiving data. Worse, ksoftirqd consumes 100% cpu and the net tx watchdog never triggers. Fix by spin_lock_irqsave() in dm9000_start_xmit() to prevent the interrupt handler from interfering. Signed-off-by: