[realtek] Question: Rx Ring Buffers in the rtl8139 module

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 joerg.beyer@email.de wrote:

> Aug 31 20:51:14 wally kernel: eth0: Abnormal interrupt, status 00000040.
..
> do you see anything from this?

Yes, you have a major problem with PCI bus bandwidth.  The received
packets cannot be moved from the NIC to main memory quickly enough.

Perhaps your laptop is slowing down the PCI bus to save power, based on
a lack of keyboard activity.  Or perhaps the PCI parameters are set so
that PCI bursts do not occur.

If the latter, you are in one of the few situation where the PCI bus
settings will have to be tuned.

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