From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>
Cc: Daniel Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmx.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'...
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:02:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8C3A48.5090703@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031009163530.GA7001@wind.cocodriloo.com>
Antonio Vargas wrote:
> This happens to me also on 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 (yes, I know they are old).
>
> Happens about once every 5 months, with the box running at
> about 1 month uptime per reboot (home server, there is no UPS)
It's fairly normal for this event to occur. It's due to the 8139
hardware.. sometimes (perhaps during a DoS or ping flood) you can
receive far more tiny packets than the driver wishes to deal with in a
single interrupt.
The real solution is to convert the driver to NAPI...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 10:08 [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt' Daniel Blueman
2003-10-09 16:35 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-10-14 18:02 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-10-15 17:20 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-10-16 8:01 ` Daniel Blueman
2003-10-16 10:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 11:18 ` Daniel Blueman
2003-10-16 11:41 ` Jeff Garzik
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