Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix"

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
4 Jan 2000 20:52:13 GMT

In article <cistron.E125Wz8-0002vo-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>The order is approximate priority. It may also not be totally accurate.
>Suggestions/fixes welcome.

>Merge the network fixes - there is a ton of backed up stuff to do asap

Does this include the fixes for the ringbuffer / dev_alloc_skb that
a lot of the ethernet drivers have (personally confirmed on tulip,
eepro100, and epic100). It causes the driver to hang indefinitely on
heavily loaded machines, very bad for Linux's image ... It looks like
most if not all of Donalds drivers have this problem, but Donald hasn't
posted one word (or patch) on this subject yet, alas.

There is an alternative eepro100 driver that works fine (running it
in production on a 2.2.x kernel - the stock one hangs about two times
an hour, the new one runs for weeks and weeks), patches for the
tulip have been posted to this list around Nov. 25, and it looks like
the patches for the tulip are easy to apply to at least the epic100
driver as well.

o fix xxx_rx problem (ringbuffer / dev_alloc_skb) in all Becker
based drivers (at least eepro100, tulip, epic100)

Mike.

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