Re: ksoftirqd_CPU0 spinning in 2.4.21-pre3

Robert Olsson (Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se)
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:21:31 +0100


Ben Greear writes:

> There was zero network load on the box. I think there must be a bug in
> my napi-ization of the tulip driver. Since I coppied it almost verbatim
> from your stuff, you might want to check too :)

If there are no interrupts and ksoftirqd is spinning it smells like
dev->poll never calls netif_rx_complete() --> pure polling.

Cheers.
--ro

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