On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Con Kolivas wrote:
> I've gone back and looked at ck7 (was a little while ago). -ck doesnt directly
> alter skbuff.c but may be responsible for calling it in an interrupt. I'm
> sorry I can't enlighten you as to why it's happening and offer a fix as I
> don't really know what the problem is.
>
> The fact that it's happening now regularly and not previously is unusual if
> the kernel itself is responsible unless some pattern in your usage has
> changed. Perhaps seeing if the problem repeats on a vanilla or alternate
> kernel may be helpful (-ck is rather different from vanilla).
I suspect that the network load is getting high enough to travel new code
paths, it's pushing ~200MB/s 24x7, and I'm sure we get some peaks as well.
Just thought it might be useful, I will be going to something newer next
week.
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