Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BUG]: RT8139 Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=.... | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 26 Feb 2002 21:57:05 +0100 |
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Patrick Cole <z@amused.net> writes:
> Hi dennis, I'm getting these messages too with an identical card... > 8139 (rev 10)... seems to have started happening after I went to > 2.4.17... strangely enough I'm getting very similar mæssages on the > machine right beside it.. running 2.4.13, SMP, and a 3com 3c905b > (Boomerang).
The problem with the 8139 is the fact that the chip design is really dumb, when I say dumb here, I mean *really* dumb ;-(
The result is that when the card is bombarded with a lot of small packets it can livelock because the queues fill up faster than the kernel code can empty and process them.
I made some changes to improve the situation in the driver, for 2.2 kernels, which I have submitted to Jeff and he plans to integrated them into the next release.
My patched drivers are available from http://www.wildopensource.com/proj/download/SG_drivers.html however I haven't tested them on 2.4.x, so I am not going to bet on them working.
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