Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:20:30 +0200 | From | Antonio Vargas <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'... |
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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 ;)
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