From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264530AbUGYV7j (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:59:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264531AbUGYV7j (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:59:39 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:29670 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264530AbUGYV7h (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:59:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:59:27 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Pasi Sjoholm Cc: H?ctor Mart?n , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: ksoftirqd uses 99% CPU triggered by network traffic (maybe RLT-8139 related) Message-ID: <20040725235927.B30025@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <4102CF17.2010207@marcansoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ptsjohol@cc.jyu.fi on Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:27:04PM +0300 X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pasi Sjoholm : [...] > I haven't been able to reproduce this with normal www-browsing or > ssh-connections but it's always reproducible when my eth0 is under heavy > load. I guess it can be reproduced even if the binary (nvidia ?) module is never loaded after boot, right ? [...] > Same thing for me also, except for me it's interrupt 10 (CMI8738-MC6, > eth0), so it's pointing more and more something rtl-8139 related. Possible. Which 8139 module do you use ? It would be nice if this thread could be fed to netdev@oss.sgi.com. -- Ueimor