Re: em watchdog problem

From: Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:57:13 -0700 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:20 UTC

Jack Vogel wrote:
> This morning I had an idea about what the source of the watchdog
> problem is. Also, we have repro'd at least one type of watchdog
> inhouse.
>
> One question, is this problem only happening for those running
> STABLE with the 6.6.6 merged driver?
>
> We found the problem does not seem to happen on 7.0.
>
> Right now my suspicion is that the FAST irq handling is
> again causing a problem. I am experimenting with variations
> to the code today to be sure whats going on, and hopefully
> fixing it.
>   

I see it on HEAD and releng7.

    Sam