Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:29:14 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 500 MHz PIII UP server, 433 MHz client over a single 100 mbit ethernet > using Simon Kirby's udpspam tool to overload the server. Result: 2.4.10 > locks up before the patch. 2.4.10 with the first generation irqrate patch > applied protects against the lockup (if max_rate is correct), but results > in dropped packets. The auto-tuning+polling patch results in a working > system and working network, no lockup and no dropped packets. Why this > happened and how it happened has been discussed extensively.
I hope we get some variant of this in 2.4. A device callback stopping rx interrupts only is of course even better, but won't that be 2.5 stuff?
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