From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266740AbUHCQwK (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:52:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266733AbUHCQwK (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:52:10 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:27075 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266731AbUHCQwG (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:52:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:50:26 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Pasi Sjoholm Cc: Robert Olsson , H?ctor Mart?n , Linux-Kernel , akpm@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, brad@brad-x.com, shemminger@osdl.org Subject: Re: ksoftirqd uses 99% CPU triggered by network traffic (maybe RLT-8139 related) Message-ID: <20040803185026.A10580@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20040803003515.A29885@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.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 Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:32:15PM +0300 X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pasi Sjoholm : [...] > The first log file is with both patchs applied and the second one with one > little change to rx8139_rx() to show if it even goes to through > > " while (netif_running(dev) && received < budget > && (RTL_R8 (ChipCmd) & RxBufEmpty) == 0) {"-section. > > This was the change which I made.. so you can see in the second log file > that there won't be any of these messages after the driver has crashed. If you remove the "if (received > 0) {" test in r8139-10.patch and keep both patches applied, I assume you are back to a crash within 15min (instead of within 2min as suggested by the log), right ? -- Ueimor