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new (1.2.8) "too much work at interrupt" messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Tue Jun 6 03:46:28 1995
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 02:36:08 -0400
From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@cygnus.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Just thought I'd forward this here. Weren't there a few boards that
had this problem in the past, but got fixed? I'm actually seeing the
messages myself; I've frobbed with 8390.c but with little
success. (One of my attempts was to try and modify Paul Gortmaker's
tx_timeout changes for 1.2.8 to work with 1.2.9, but I screwed
something up there...) Any suggestions?
_Mark_ <eichin@cygnus.com>
Cygnus Support, East Coast
> From: David Hinds <dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu>
> Several people have asked me about the appearance of "too much work at
> interrupt" messages in their system logs with DE-650 type ethernet
> adapters. These messages seem to be connected to the 1.2.7->1.2.8
> kernel patch. There were some changes in interrupt handling in the
> 1.2.9 patch, and I was hoping they'd fix the problem, but I'm still
> seeing these messages. They seem to be harmless so I'm ignoring them
> for the moment, since I don't know how to fix them.
