Re: wi polling

John Polstra <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Lars Eggert  <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for being unclear: By "livelock" I mean the CPU spends all its 
> cycles on receive and hostap processing, to a point where userland 
> processes are starved. The box doesn't panic and becomes responsive 
> again when network load goes down.

Are you using IPSec on the interface?  I've noticed that's a
reliable way to produce the symptoms you described.

John
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  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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