On Friday, August 20 Roland Dreier wrote: >However, on my Dell box with 865 chipset (lspci below), loading e1000 >(from kernel 2.6.8.1 with this patch applied) with MSI=1 only works >for a short time (maybe ~1000 e1000 interrupts) before network traffic >stops. > >Is there something wrong with the patch? Something wrong with the >kernel MSI support? Something wrong with the hardware? I do not see anything wrong with the patch and the kernel MSI support because it works for a short time. Ganesh may provide an answer on the MSI support in e1000 hardware. Thanks, Long - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html