sorry, sloppy language. hang == reset (in this case)
> > under heavy loads (ie with multiple flood pings) it resets often but I
> > couldn't push it over the edge anymore. I have it running now for
> > several minutes under multiple pingfloods and it always recovered
> > (from quite a amount of resets).
>
> Ok, that means the "D-Link magic" does improve reset.
Yes. Until your patch 2.4.9 resetted three or four times sucessfully
and then the resets stopped working. With your patch it resets as
often but doesn't fail resetting anymore.
> It may be interesting to find out which parts that help. I simply added
> things that looked good ... Lacking information on what the bit-flipping
> is supposed to do, one way to try and do that is to remove code and see
> how much can be removed without breaking anything.
> (Sounds like a childrens game, except for programmers ...)
Hehe, bruteforcing it :-))
> I'll still try generating collisions and see what happens. If I can't
> reproduce this perhaps you would test a different patch to see which
> change that made a difference?
Sure, the machine is fast enough to handle another kernel recompile or
two :^))
Regards, David
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