Lal wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P > <peter.p.waskiewicz...@intel.com> wrote: >> http://e1000.sf.net >> >> Cheers, >> >> PJ Waskiewicz >> peter.p.waskiewicz...@intel.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Lal [mailto:learner.ker...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:05 AM >> To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation >> (x86-64 and x86-32 both) (in-tree e1000e at fault) >> >>> My original speculations were wrong: it goes wrong with 32-bit as >>> well as 64-bit kernels. The key is that it only ever goes wrong >>> with the in-tree driver. When I compiled the faulty kernels (32- >>> and 64-bit), I forgot to copy the out-of-tree driver into place. >>> Use the out-of-tree driver, and the CPU hogging goes away. So this >>> is an in-tree e1000e driver bug, definitely. >> >> Where is out-of-tree driver source available ? >> > > > Does this driver work for following device ? > > 00:02.0 Class 0200: Unknown device 8086:1079 (rev 03) > Subsystem: Unknown device 8086:1011
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