Removing NET_NEEDS_GIANT: first patch

Anders Nordby anders at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 26 11:17:56 UTC 2007


hI!

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:11:49PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> I agree with what Kris said, only more so. :-)  By masking the bug using 
> debug.mpsafenet, whatever bug is the root of the problem isn't getting 
> fixed, and instead keeps going out in releases.  This sounds like it's most 
> likely a driver bug, although I wouldn't rule out some sort of interrupt 
> problem.  It looks like jkim might be someone to talk to about this (CC'd).

Does any of you know how to find the cause of the watchdog timeout?

My (poor) excuse for still using debug.mpsafenet is that the servers are
in production, and that I "just" wanted them to work as stable as
possible.

Cheers,

-- 
Anders.


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