Re: [tulip] 2.4.17 tulip multiport-patch

Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:03:00 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Christoph Dworzak wrote:

> After lots of Headscratching, I found this little bug:
>
> replace line 1642 of tulip_core.c:
>
> irq = last_irq;
>
> with
>
> dev->irq = irq = last_irq;

Hmmm, a little bit of bad conversion here. The tulip.c code follows
this section by

dev->irq = irq;

a few lines later.

> While using the de4x5-driver, my system-load climbed steadily
> up. After 3 Days it was at 99.5%.

Check the interrupt count in /dev/interrupts.

> This was repeatable. -> Reboot every other day :(

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters
Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993

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