* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

quoted text
> > Please test the patch I actually applied.
> 
> i just updated all my testsystems to revert the change i tested so 
> far, and updated it to yours. The delta between the two is the 3 lines 
> patch below.
> 
> A few testsystems already booted into your patch, so if i dont report 
> a hung TCP connection in the next 6 hours consider it:
> 
> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

this threw the warning below - never saw that before in thousands of 
bootups and this was the only networking change that happened. config 
and bootlog attached. Might be unlucky coincidence.

	Ingo

[  173.354049] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
[  173.354148] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  173.354221] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:222 dev_watchdog+0x9a/0xec()
[  173.354298] Modules linked in:
[  173.354421] Pid: 13452, comm: cc1 Tainted: G        W 2.6.26-rc6-00273-g81ae43a-dirty #2573
[  173.354516]  [<c01250ca>] warn_on_slowpath+0x46/0x76
[  173.354641]  [<c011d428>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x1d6/0x1e0
[  173.354815]  [<c01411e9>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
[  173.357370]  [<c011d43d>] ? default_wake_function+0xb/0xd
[  173.357370]  [<c014112a>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x15/0xc9
[  173.357370]  [<c01411e9>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
[  173.357370]  [<c0142c83>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
[  173.357370]  [<c0142b33>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16/0x15b
[  173.357370]  [<c0142c83>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
[  173.357370]  [<c06bb3c9>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5b/0x71
[  173.357370]  [<c0133d46>] ? __queue_work+0x2d/0x32
[  173.357370]  [<c0134023>] ? queue_work+0x50/0x72
[  173.357483]  [<c0134059>] ? schedule_work+0x14/0x16
[  173.357654]  [<c05c59b8>] dev_watchdog+0x9a/0xec
[  173.357783]  [<c012d456>] run_timer_softirq+0x13d/0x19d
[  173.357905]  [<c05c591e>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0xec
[  173.358073]  [<c05c591e>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0xec
[  173.360804]  [<c0129ad7>] __do_softirq+0xb2/0x15c
[  173.360804]  [<c0129a25>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x15c
[  173.360804]  [<c0105526>] do_softirq+0x84/0xe9
[  173.360804]  [<c0129996>] irq_exit+0x4b/0x88
[  173.360804]  [<c010ec7a>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x73/0x81
[  173.360804]  [<c0103ddd>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2d/0x34
[  173.360804]  =======================
[  173.360804] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
[  173.396182] evbug.c: Event. Dev: <NULL>, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
[  173.446150] evbug.c: Event. Dev: <NULL>, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0