Re: Kernel crash after using new Intel NIC (igb)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 31 2011 - 06:50:35 EST



* Arun Sharma <asharma@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/29/11 5:33 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >* Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>I asked Arun if he wanted to make this himself, because initial
> >>idea was coming from him, not because I did not want to make it ;)
> >
> >Hey, fair enough and sorry about the fuss! :-)
>
> Sounds like there is general consensus that such a cleanup would be
> good. I'll try to post a patch that does this cleanup for all archs
> in the next couple of days - but I won't have a way of testing it
> on anything other than x86_64.

-mm is a good place to do such many-arch kind of facility
cleanups/extensions so please Cc: Andrew if you think the patch is
ready to be tested on that level.

Thanks,

Ingo
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