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

[Daniel Blueman]

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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