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

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Francois Romieu wrote:

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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 ?

Hmm,

I removed "if (received > 0) {" and tested it something like 3 hours and 
wasn't able to crash the driver. I will test it for couple more hours 
tomorrow and if I'm not still able the crash it, we may have find some 
sort of a solution.

I'm not sure yet if it's a good one because of that earlier crash I had.
I guess I will also test if

- read the interruption status word that the driver will ack before the
  actual processing is done;

has something to do it.

We'll see.. I'll get back to you tomorrow with more information.

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Pasi Sjöholm