David Miller wrote:
From: Andrew Theurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:55:03 -0500

Thanks for finally getting to test this, I thought nobody
would test this until it got merged into 2.6.24 :-/

kernel BUG at include/linux/netdevice.h:318!
enter ? for help
[c00000000f613e40] c0000000003fe394 .net_rx_action+0x1b8/0x254
[c00000000f613ef0] c000000000057b70 .__do_softirq+0xa8/0x164
[c00000000f613f90] c000000000024438 .call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24
[c000000b8ffbf9f0] c00000000000bd30 .do_softirq+0x68/0xac
[c000000b8ffbfa80] c000000000057cc4 .irq_exit+0x54/0x6c
[c000000b8ffbfb00] c00000000000c358 .do_IRQ+0x170/0x1ac
[c000000b8ffbfb90] c000000000004780 hardware_interrupt_entry+0x18/0x98
--- Exception: 501 (Hardware Interrupt) at c000000000010bdc .cpu_idle+0x114/0x1e0
[c000000b8ffbfe80] c000000000010bd0 .cpu_idle+0x108/0x1e0 (unreliable)
[c000000b8ffbff00] c000000000026db0 .start_secondary+0x160/0x184
[c000000b8ffbff90] c000000000008364 .start_secondary_prolog+0xc/0x10

I'm a little confused if the port_napi_enable() is being called when the device is initialized, but then again, this is all new to me (should it be called in ehea_open?). I see it called on some reset routines, but not on the first initialization.

This is similar to the problem that Arnaldo hit a few minutes
ago in the VIA Rhine driver.

You can't only make a napi_enable() call when there has been
a previous napi_disable().

One way to fix this would be to forcefully napi_disable() on
all the per-port NAPI structs at the beginning of ehea_open(),
which should set things up to satisfy the pre-condition of the
napi_enable() calls.
OK, Ill try this.
You'll need to audit the entire driver to make sure this invariant
is held properly.

Also, on this code, in ehea_sense_port_attr()

/* Number of default QPs */
        if (use_mcs)
                port->num_def_qps = cb0->num_default_qps;
        else
                port->num_def_qps = 1;
When using napi, since we have multi-queue napi support now, wouldn't we want to use all the default qps instead of 1?

I don't know how this hardware works, you tell me :-)
Heh, I don't know it well, either. Maybe Jan Bernd can chime in.

Thanks for your help,

-Andrew

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