Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:32:15 -0800 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: ksoftirqd_CPU0 spinning in 2.4.21-pre3 |
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Robert Olsson wrote: > Ben Greear writes: > > I happened to notice that my ksoftirqd_CPU0 process started spinning > > at 99% CPU when I plugged in the ports to a tulip NIC. I didn't see > > any significant amount of interrupts when I looked at /proc/interrupts, > > and there was no traffic running. > > > > However, this is also running a hacked up tulip-napi driver, so it > > could very well be my problem. I have not seen this on any other kernel > > in several months though... > > > > Anyway, if anyone has seen this, I'd like to know. Otherwise, I'll blame > > my code and start poking at things... > > Well it can be normal operation if box is highly loaded...
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 :)
Ben
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