Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'...

Antonio Vargas
2003-10-15T17:20:35Z

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:02:48PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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

NAPI is the method where you block hardware interrupts and
then handle the data by periodic polling? I wonder how could
I get this error, given that my network is a 10Mbit one ;)

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