Re: Hangs with 100baseTX, RedHat 7.1, kernel 2.4.x and AlphaPC 164

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:12:49PM +0200, Mads Peter Bach wrote:

>
> It
> turns out, that the reason the net install didn't work, was that any heavy
> 100baseTX ethernet activity, using normal size packets hung the machine.

Hm, I wonder how this is related to the very recent discussion with
subjects like "limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5" on
linux-kernel list.  In your place I would check relevant discussions
in recent archives and post a detailed description to
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (and maybe 'cc' to main participants).
You do not have to subscribe to post there although you may not see
followups that way. :-)

Sounds strangely familiar and it may be much bigger problem than
Linus seems to believe.

  Michal