6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

[Mike Tancsa]

At 12:32 PM 9/27/2006, Scott Long wrote:

>My theory here is that something in the kernel, likely VM/VFS, is
>holding the Giant lock for an inordinate amount of time.  During this
>time, an interrupt fires on the shared em/ichsmb interrupt.  The em

Hi Scott,
         Do you think this issue is something particular to Intel 
based chipsets, and specifically NICs that share their interrupt with 
ichsmb or the USB subsystem ?  I have not gone through all the 
threads, but I dont recall people with say, AMD based boards running 
into this issue.

         ---Mike