Re: ksoftirqd uses 99% CPU triggered by network traffic (maybeRLT-8139 related)

[Pasi Sjoholm]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Will S. wrote:

>>Yeah, it might be some sort of a bug which is related to 
>>VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]-chipset and 
>>RTL-8139? Hard to say at this point. I'll get some other network cards 
>>tomorrow from the office and we will see if there is a difference. 
>>I hope that it's not the mobo (chipset). =)

> I just remembered something. In the kernel config, there's an option for 
> the RTL-8139 driver to use polling I/O instead of memory mapped I/O - 
> and it usually defaults to PIO. My kernel was compiled using the MMIO 
> option. Check and see what you're using.

I'm using MMIO-option, I was just thinking to go with the PIO and see what 
will happen.

I just found this thread (url below) and some others are having problems 
also.

http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/Mar/2295.html

Andrew:

Did you find any solution to this one? (I guess not but could I be in help 
someway to hunt this bug down?)


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