On 12 Jun 2007 21:56:38 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It kind of surprised me that sending 254 arp packets by using the arp-scan > tool (http://www.nta-monitor.com/tools/arp-scan/) on a /24 consistently > triggers a burst of "eth0: excessive work at interrupt." > > This is a 600 MHz PIII, 2.6.22-rc4, via-velocity driver. > > model name : Pentium III (Katmai) > stepping : 3 > cpu MHz : 601.406 > cache size : 512 KB > > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT6120/VT6121/VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1106:3119] (rev 11) > > Just double-checking... the program actually sent 463 packets (256 + > a retry to all those that didn't respond to the first one), and triggers > 11 copies of the kernel message. > > Command line: arp-scan -I eth0 -l [-v]
The via-velocity needs NAPI among lots of other fixes. The driver is too vendor ish and nobody works on it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
