3c509B locking w/"re-entering the interrupt handler"

Adam Spiers adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk
Fri Sep 4 07:08:55 1998


Jeremy Wohl (jeremyw@pogo.evantide.com) wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 10:30:27AM -0400, Jeremy Wohl wrote:
> > Under normal loads all seems well with my 3c509B, SMP 2.0.35 kernel with
> > 2.0.36pre6 (3c59x.c patch segment only).  Under network stress, the box
> > eventually starts spilling "eth0: Re-entering the interrupt handler"
> > messages infinitely at the console and is otherwise unresponsive.

Ditto :-(

> Using a non-SMP kernel fixed it.  Donald, can the same fix I see on the
> eepro100 list (a hack to disable the warning once printed) apply here?

I second that request :-)  Despite many suggestions following
desperate e-mails from me to this list and linux-smp, I have
still not been able to get a stable SMP 2.0.x kernel working
with our 3c900 Boomerang.

-- 
perl -le '@^M=map(ord()-($=>>1)=>split//,qq/\$!4 1"*!\47!1!/);*$=\q/(.*)/;sub _
{$^M.=($_[0]=~/.{$^M[$.++]}(.{$^M[$.++]})/ )[0]}$SIG{__WARN__}=$SIG{__DIE__}=*_
,map eval()=>split m) ),q,goto delete(42) /?/ :: goto eval"}";die$@,;$_=$^M,$,=
chr(--($==$=+($=>>$^F))),y, \166,,,s$\$\$(r )\$\$$\$,\$1\$2\u\$^X\$3\$2$;print'