Re: [PATCH 1/7] [NETDEV]: e1000 Fix possible causing oops ofnet_rx_action

[David Miller]

From: "Joonwoo Park" <joonwpark81@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:18:56 +0900

> Just blowing netif_running up is not best solution I think, it makes
> ifconfig down hang at least for e1000.

It hangs because the packet receive rate is so high that NAPI
poll never exits.

I think we need a cheap solution to something so obscure and
almost not worth explicitly even coding for.  Really, if you
setup silly situations like that, you get what you asked for.
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