Re: [BUG] [2.4.21] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'...

[Jeff Garzik]

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



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