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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Daniel Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'...
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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