Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3) | Date | Fri, 17 May 2002 13:49:21 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> So the problem would appear to be that your networking *requires* > ksoftirqd services to function. Either: > > 1) The driver is bust - its hard_start_xmit() function is failing > frequently, and relying on ksoftirqd to get things done (I think; > it's been a while). Or
The ne2k card has little buffering.
> 2) Something is wrong with the ksoftirqd design. Or
I think its mostly #2. We invoke ksoftirq far far too easily. - 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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