Re: BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:141/local_bh_enable()

From: John Philips
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 11:33:43 EST


> > eth6 is a NatSemi DP83815 NIC
>
> Well... lot of changes in drivers/net/natsemi.c
> between 2.4 and 2.6
>
> Previous versions had a max_interrupt_work = 20;
> RX_RING_SIZE is 32 for this NIC
>
> But NAPI standard weight is 64, maybe you should try
> to lower it ? (so that an
> interrupt dont try to queue/dequeue too many packets
> at once)
>
> /proc/sys/net/core/dev_weight
> /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget

Eric,

Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't really
understand what you're saying.

Currently dev_weight is 64 and netdev_budget is 300.
What do you recommend I set them to?



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