From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: casus@mail.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x high irq contention
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:50:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030422195003.30b6177f.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051019272.14881.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On 22 Apr 2003 14:47:53 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Maw, 2003-04-22 at 11:40, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > I don't know much about your network load, but if you have a lot, then you
> > should probably throw away the 8139 network card and use tulip or 3com
> > instead.
>
> Won't help a lot. If its all IRQ load (eg lots of multicast streaming
> audio small frames) then you want an eepro100 or something similar that
> has interrupt mitigators.
Well, handwaving about the network load/type ;-)
Could as well be two RTL back-to-back, normal packets but high bandwidth.
(watch collisions for this case :-)
Regards,
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-22 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-22 3:32 Anton Petrusevich
2003-04-22 10:40 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-22 13:47 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-22 17:50 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2003-04-22 10:12 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-22 18:44 Chuck Ebbert
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