Re: NE2k driver issue

[Andrew Morton]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> On Feb 19, 2002  16:18 +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > With esd started the sound card generated 500-600 interrupts/second,
> > with no esd, it didnt generated interrupts.
> 
> This is a known problem with esd - it plays "the sound of silence" all
> the time.  This means it is generating interrupts even when you aren't
> listening to anything.
> 

But the odd thing is that the soundcard interrupts tentupled the
samba throughput.  Which sounds like a driver-handoff-to-ksoftirqd
problem. 

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