From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262635AbTJNSDC (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:03:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262676AbTJNSDC (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:03:02 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:50110 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262635AbTJNSDA (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:03:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8C3A48.5090703@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:02:48 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antonio Vargas CC: Daniel Blueman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'... References: <16084.1065694106@www3.gmx.net> <20031009163530.GA7001@wind.cocodriloo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031009163530.GA7001@wind.cocodriloo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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