From: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work?
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:32:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B737FE4.3D0998D3@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108042028320.16941-100000@infradead.org>
Riley Williams wrote:
> One of my systems has SIX ethernet cards, these being three ISA and
> two PCI NE2000 clones and a DEC Tulip. Here's the relevant section of
> modules.conf on the system in question:
>
> Q> alias eth0 ne
> Q> options eth0 io=0x340
> Q> alias eth1 ne
> Q> options eth1 io=0x320
> Q> alias eth2 ne
> Q> options eth2 io=0x2c0
> Q> alias eth3 ne2k-pci
> Q> alias eth4 ne2k-pci
> Q> alias eth5 tulip
You have six drivers loaded, when you only need three (i.e.
io=0x340,0x320,0x2c0 for ne options etc. etc). So you end
up wasting some memory, and a worse icache behaviour as well.
(the latter is probably a non-issue if you are happy with ISA)
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-10 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-03 21:29 Mark Atwood
2001-08-04 1:21 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-03-28 2:52 ` How to tell how much to expect from a fd Mark Atwood
2002-03-28 13:27 ` Eric Lammerts
2002-03-31 3:03 ` David Schwartz
2001-08-04 1:32 ` How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? Thomas Duffy
2001-08-04 2:31 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04 4:39 ` Jim Roland
2001-08-04 19:35 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-06 19:59 ` Thomas Duffy
2001-08-06 22:56 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-06 23:46 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-07 7:04 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-07 10:49 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-07 19:04 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-07 21:46 ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-07 22:33 ` Tim Jansen
2001-08-07 23:06 ` Josh Wyatt
2001-08-07 23:35 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 0:04 ` Josh Wyatt
2001-08-08 6:28 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 10:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-08 0:08 ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08 6:40 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 8:41 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 10:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-08 11:40 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 22:04 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 21:09 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 0:11 ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08 6:47 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 0:16 ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08 20:26 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 9:30 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 21:31 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 21:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-08 22:24 ` Horst von Brand
2001-08-09 20:05 ` Colonel
2001-08-10 6:32 ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2001-08-10 21:25 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-15 4:32 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-08-04 4:33 ` Jim Roland
2001-08-04 4:48 ` Jim Roland
[not found] ` <15SnZL-05h4nQC@fmrl06.sul.t-online.com>
2001-08-06 19:46 ` How to hack a network driver to use a specific ethX (was Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work?) Mark Atwood
2001-08-07 20:51 How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? Stuart Lynne
2001-08-08 2:36 ` Bill Nottingham
2001-08-08 5:45 ` Greg KH
2001-08-08 13:59 Matt_Domsch
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