Re: [PATCH 1/1] grub: fix hang in netboot

2014-04-28 Thread Ram Pai
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:07:33PM -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > Grub can busy-loop and hang while network booting, if the network has > some fair amount of activity. This is because grub's net module sniffs > the network for packets, and busy-loops in receive_packets() till it > finds network packet of

[PATCH 1/1] grub: fix hang in netboot

2014-04-24 Thread Ram Pai
Grub can busy-loop and hang while network booting, if the network has some fair amount of activity. This is because grub's net module sniffs the network for packets, and busy-loops in receive_packets() till it finds network packet of type IP or IPV6. During this period grub will not respond to any