Re: major network performance difference between 2.4 and 2.6.2-rc2

From: Gerd Knorr (kraxel_at_bytesex.org)
Date: 02/04/04

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    Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:28:41 +0100
    To: Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu>
    
    

    > While doing a large network transfer, and not at any other time, I get
    > tons of messages like this from the kernel:
    >
    > Feb 4 15:14:05 delta-9 i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x3f raw=0x3fff down=0
    > Feb 4 15:14:06 delta-9 i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x3f raw=0x3fff down=1
    >
    > I do have a hauppauge remote which works great under the 2.6 kernels
    > (thanks Gerd), but I am not pressing any keys while this is happening.

    Hmm, what happens if you rmmod the ir-kbd-i2c module? Any difference?

    > 3 root 35 19 0 0 0 S 45.9 0.0 0:46.98 ksoftirqd/0
    > 6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 43.3 0.0 1:56.63 events/0

    One of the two could be ir-kbd-i2c, it polls the i2c IR chip using tasklets.
    Not sure which of the kernel threads runs the tasklets ...

      Gerd

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