Re: 8139too.c and 2.4.4-pre1 kernel burp

["Jörn Nettingsmeier" <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de>]

jeff garzik wrote:
> 
>       Frank Jacobberger wrote:
>       > 
>       > Jeff,
>       > 
>       > I noticed the following on boot with 2.4.4-pre1:
>       > 
>       > kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
>       > 
>       > What is this saying to me :)
> 
>       How often does this occur?  A lot, or just once or twice?


i'm seeing this, too. it occurs *very* often during access of the
card:

Apr 13 11:08:11 kleineronkel kernel: eth0: Too much work at
interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
Apr 13 11:08:44 kleineronkel last message repeated 869 times
Apr 13 11:09:29 kleineronkel last message repeated 59 times
Apr 13 11:10:04 kleineronkel last message repeated 2 times
Apr 13 11:11:43 kleineronkel last message repeated 149 times
Apr 13 11:11:59 kleineronkel last message repeated 4 times
Apr 13 11:13:01 kleineronkel last message repeated 7 times
Apr 13 11:15:01 kleineronkel kernel: eth0: Too much work at
interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
Apr 13 11:16:15 kleineronkel last message repeated 6 times
Apr 13 11:16:15 kleineronkel kernel: eth0: Too much work at
interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
Apr 13 11:18:01 kleineronkel last message repeated 5 times
Apr 13 11:18:06 kleineronkel modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
net-pf-10
Apr 13 11:18:08 kleineronkel sshd[1631]: Accepted password for ROOT
from 127.0.0.1 port 32948
Apr 13 11:18:08 kleineronkel modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
net-pf-10
Apr 13 11:18:09 kleineronkel kernel: eth0: Too much work at
interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.

and so on.

it might be important that i'm sharing the IRQ:

kleineronkel:~ # cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0       CPU1
  0:     294470     246477    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:       4552       5266    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          2          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 12:      29084      29205    IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
 14:          4          4    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 15:       4924       5704    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
 16:       1256       1373   IO-APIC-level  EMU10K1
 17:          0          0   IO-APIC-level  Ensoniq AudioPCI
 19:      76145      76111   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx, eth0
NMI:          0          0
LOC:     540865     540843
ERR:          0

and yes, this is an SMP box (dual p3/600) with a bx chipset.

please keep me on cc:, as i have only archive access to LKML.
thanks.
btw, jeff, the old  "kernel: eth0: Abnormal interrupt, status
0000000[2,6]" messages have disappeared since 2.4.3 or so.

regards,

jörn

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