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To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Subject: Re: ksoftirqd_CPU0 spinning in 2.4.21-pre3
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Ben Greear writes:

 > There was zero network load on the box.  I think there must be a bug in
 > my napi-ization of the tulip driver.  Since I coppied it almost verbatim
 > from your stuff, you might want to check too :)

 If there are no interrupts and ksoftirqd is spinning it smells like  
 dev->poll never calls netif_rx_complete() --> pure polling.

 Cheers.
						--ro