Re: ksoftirqd uses 99% CPU triggered by network traffic (maybe RLT-8139 related)

[Francois Romieu]

Pasi Sjoholm <ptsjohol@xxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> The first log file is with both patchs applied and the second one with one 
> little change to rx8139_rx() to show if it even goes to through 
> 
> "        while (netif_running(dev) && received < budget
>                && (RTL_R8 (ChipCmd) & RxBufEmpty) == 0) {"-section.
> 
> This was the change which I made.. so you can see in the second log file 
> that there won't be any of these messages after the driver has crashed. 

If you remove the "if (received > 0) {" test in r8139-10.patch and keep
both patches applied, I assume you are back to a crash within 15min (instead
of within 2min as suggested by the log), right ?

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Ueimor
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