When a machine gets "flooded" with messages, it stops processing the
incoming packets when 300 packets in a row have been processed by the
net bottom-half.
The message then says that packets are getting dropped, but I'd like
to know how many..... Simple patch:
--- dev.c~ Sat Sep 13 20:07:29 1997
+++ dev.c Thu Nov 20 16:10:18 1997
@@ -774,8 +774,6 @@
*/
if (--nit <= 0)
{
- if (nit == 0)
- printk(KERN_WARNING "net_bh: too many loops, dropping...\n");
kfree_skb(skb, FREE_WRITE);
continue;
}
@@ -894,7 +892,9 @@
dev_transmit();
#endif
} /* End of queue loop */
-
+ if (nit <= 0)
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "net_bh: too many loops, dropped %d packets.\n", -nit);
+
/*
* We have emptied the queue
*/
Regards,
Roger.
P.S. My '486 can answer around 1000 echo requests (ping -f) per
second, but occasionally hits this "printk". So, it probably spent 300
ms in the net_bh..... Actually that's WAY too much.
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