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SubjectRe: [PATCH] starfire net driver update for 2.4.19pre2
Ion Badulescu wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > There is a bugfix, which I will make locally before submitting:
> > PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE should be enabled -after- messing with
> > PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE.
>
> I didn't find anything in the starfire chipset's documentation about this,
> so is there a deeper reason for this ordering? As far as I know, most if
> not all x86 PCI chipsets silently map MWI to MW, so it should only matter
> for non-x86 plaforms, right?

More PCI than a Starfire requirement.

And there are plenty of ia32 platforms that benefit from MWI, too.
Often its server mobos that support MWI, but some cheaper ones do too.


> And, in general, are there any other tricks one can do to speed up the PCI
> transactions on non-x86 platforms? I'm still getting occasional overruns
> on sparc64 (card receiving packets faster than it can push them over PCI),
> which is somewhat disturbing..

Dynamically tune your RX and TX DMA burst settings when you notice these
conditions... It is indeed possible to saturate PCI bus bandwidth.

Jeff


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