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

[Antonio Vargas]

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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