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

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:09:46AM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> 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.

I don't believe it is; the problem is related to PC164 with SRM only,
and has been present through all the 2.4.x kernels, as far as I can
tell.

--Jay++

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