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Tag: mips

Reading a file kills NIC interrupts

I have a very strange problem with a board based on a MIPS processor and Linux 2.6. There are NIC interrupts for all incoming Ethernet packets. If I send 10.000 packets I could see that 10.000 NIC interrupts occurred. However, after I open and close a file (filled with zeros or regular) in the filesystem, there are much fewer NIC

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