Bug#583363: linux-image-2.6.32-3-686: Network hangs with network activity and date freezes

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Jose Luis Salas Carrascosa wrote:

> I think that the bug is caused by changes in the clocksource between kernels
> and the powernow-k8 module.
>
> One time I tested booting the xen flavour of the linux kernel ( the
> 2.6.32-5-xen-686 ) and the problem dissapeared, the net worked at full speed
> but there was no cpu scaling.
>
> Now, I boot the kernel with the clocksource=jiffies option and the
> powersaved daemon to do the frequency scaling, the net works al full speed
> and the notebook is less hot, and me happier.

That's quite believable.

I don't see any relevant fixes in stable recently (except maybe
v2.6.32.43~31, "clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption"
which is not in squeeze yet), while upstream of course there has been
more activity.  Would it be possible to test a v3.0.x kernel from
unstable?

Thanks for a clear report,
Jonathan