e1000 driver hung until the customer rebooted the OS with "kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 dev_watchdog" in /var/log/messages
Issue
- e1000 driver hung, the system had to be rebooted.
- The following error was seen in the system logs: "kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 dev_watchdog"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.21-k6-1-NAPI
- VMware ESXi
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