TULIP Driver problem on SMP Linux ??

[Steven Clarke]

In article <368AA5A5.7E09578A@hspg.de> you wrote:
: we use a Intel SMP Linux v2.0.35 Server as workgroup server.
: (2x Intel PII 333 MHz).

: The Problem:
: While enabling SMP, after some time (normally between 1 up to 3 days !!)

: the server stops
: without doing anything.
: (no kernel panic, no reaction on anything, no syslog messages, like
: there is a while infinity loop in an intterupt)

We had exactly the same problems with a news peering server - worked fine
with a single processor but crashed within 24 hours with SMP. When we
upgraded the tulip driver to:

 tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov

the problem vanished. I notice that between the driver in 2.0.36 and this
driver, some code marked SMP_CHECK got enabled so perhaps that makes the
difference.

Steve Clarke