Vortex Driver IRQ Hang

[Utz-Uwe Haus]

Me-Too followup, basically:
> 
> BUG REBORT:
> 
> I am getting system crashes preceeded with the following messages:
> 
> Aug 18 08:06:45 artbell kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
> status e601.
> Aug 18 08:06:45 artbell kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered
> -- IRQ blocked by  another device?
etc. up to crash.
Have these here from 2.1.98-2.1.117, on a Gigabyte 686DLX, 2xPii 266,
128 Mb RAM, on-board aic7xxx, with 3c905B, dec-21140AF, and rtl8139 (although
only the 3c gives such explicit error messages).
Symptom: heavy netload (a few minutes of tcpspray on a cross-cable 10Mb TP)
connection result in the above message, followed by a crashed card, or 
(in 2.1.115&117) a total crash of the machine, where even the Magic SysRq
does nothing.
I don't have the output from /proc/ handy, but I do not have an IRQ conflict.

> Right now, I'm running with SMP off, as that has stopped the crashing
> at this time. 
I tried this too, and it helped: no such crash without SMP enabled...

Sincerely

Utz-Uwe Haus

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