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I have seen problems like this when a bad driver was spending loads of time in it's SA_INTERRUPT (ie meant to be 'fast') IRQ handler ...this buffered up *lots * of packets to be handled, and caused this message. Perhaps we should profile? Dan > 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. > -- Daniel J Blueman NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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