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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:52:34 +0000
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Subject: Re: interrupt storm on MSI IXP600 based motherboards
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> trouble with onboard re(4) was resolved in -CURRENT and -STABLE, but 
> storms are not bound to ethernet only. storm may appear on any device. 
> if any device generates enough interrupts rate, storm will arrive.

Yes, I just got another storm, on my ATA controller this time. Ah
well, so much for the idea of disabling unneeded devices!

-pete.