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From: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>,
	Daniel Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmx.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'...
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:20:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031015172030.GA20098@wind.cocodriloo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F8C3A48.5090703@pobox.com>

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:02:48PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Antonio Vargas wrote:
> >This happens to me also on 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 (yes, I know they are old).
> >
> >Happens about once every 5 months, with the box running at
> >about 1 month uptime per reboot (home server, there is no UPS)
> 
> 
> It's fairly normal for this event to occur.  It's due to the 8139 
> hardware..  sometimes (perhaps during a DoS or ping flood) you can 
> receive far more tiny packets than the driver wishes to deal with in a 
> single interrupt.
> 
> The real solution is to convert the driver to NAPI...
> 
> 	Jeff

NAPI is the method where you block hardware interrupts and
then handle the data by periodic polling? I wonder how could
I get this error, given that my network is a 10Mbit one ;)

-- 
winden/network

1. Dado un programa, siempre tiene al menos un fallo.
2. Dadas varias lineas de codigo, siempre se pueden acortar a menos lineas.
3. Por induccion, todos los programas se pueden
   reducir a una linea que no funciona.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-09 10:08 Daniel Blueman
2003-10-09 16:35 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-10-14 18:02   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-15 17:20     ` Antonio Vargas [this message]
2003-10-16  8:01       ` Daniel Blueman
2003-10-16 10:39         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 11:18           ` Daniel Blueman
2003-10-16 11:41             ` Jeff Garzik

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