Re: [RTnet-developers] RTnet hangs system when brought up with heavy traffic

[Jan K. <jan...@si...>]

Am 07.12.2010 18:21, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> If I do 'rtifconfig rteth0 up' on a network with heavy broadcast traffic
> (which I later intend to catch/throw away), the system does a hard
> lockup after a few lines like these:
> 
>   'RTnet: no one cared for packet with layer 3 protocol type ...'
> 
> I would humbly suggest something like the attached patch.

Rate-limiting this warning makes sense as RTnet is also used in soft-RT
scenarios on open networks.

But I would prefer having some rtdm_printk_ratelimted similar to what
Linux provides. That means: extend RTDM this way and then use it here.
Yeah, a bit more work. Would you look into this?

Thanks,
Jan

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