Subject: Re: [TG3]: About hw coalescing infrastructure.

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:55:37 +0200

David S. Miller a écrit :

> Please don't ever do stuff like that :-(  That makes the driver
> version, and any other information you report completely meaningless
> and useless.  You've just wasted a lot of our time.
> 

Yes. But if you dont want us to test your patches, dont send them to the list.

For your information, 2.6.13-rc1 locks too.

Very easy way to lock it :

ping -f some_destination.

> I have no idea to even know _WHICH_ IRQ spinlock patch you applied.
> 
> The one that ended up in Linus's tree has many bug fixes and
> refinements.  The ones which were posted on netdev had many bugs and
> deadlocks which needed to be cured before pushing the change upstream.
> 
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