> Need another fix. You need to reinstrument the tasklet
> schedule in the fill_rx_ring instread of doing the whole thing from
> interrupt. When the system is loaded at 100% saturation on gigbit
> with 300 byte packets or smaller, the driver does not allow any
> processes to run, and you cannot log in via ssh or any user space
> apps. This is severely busted.
That's one of the points of NAPI - to process high traffic Rx rates outside
of h/w interrupt context.
-scott
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