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

Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16T10:40:11Z

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