From: "Daniel Blueman" <daniel.blueman@gmx.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: wind@cocodriloo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'...
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:18:20 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26145.1066303100@www7.gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F8E757A.5010008@pobox.com
Hi Jeff,
Yes, the 8139too driver is doing it's job correctly - I was just thinking
about the source of the starvation, ie the cause of the effect. I.e. the
brokeness is elsewhere, in other drivers etc.
Dan
> Daniel Blueman wrote:
> > I have seen problems like this when a bad driver was spending loads of
> time
> > in it's SA_INTERRUPT (ie meant to be 'fast') IRQ handler ...this
> buffered up
> > *lots * of packets to be handled, and caused this message.
> >
> > Perhaps we should profile?
>
>
> There is no need to profile, I described the problem precisely.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-16 11:18 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
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 [this message]
2003-10-16 11:41 ` Jeff Garzik
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