netdev - Re: 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 only, not x86-32) (e1000e-related?)

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Message-Id: <20090531.215855.142666346.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 31 May 2009 21:58:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nix@...eri.org.uk
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.30rc7: ksoftirqd CPU saturation (x86-64 only, not x86-32)
 (e1000e-related?)

From: Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:16:26 +0100

> I plan to try out 2.6.29 (and back to 2.6.25 or thereabouts) tomorrow
> and see if it ever worked: if it did I'll bisect for it (rendered tricky
> by the out-of-tree e1000e driver, but doable: it would be easier if I
> had a clue where the e1000-devel git tree is, if anywhere, but I still
> have no idea despite considerable searching).

Why are you using the out-of-tree e1000e driver?  What's wrong
with the one in the tree? :-)
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