Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:42:10 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Repeatable 2.4.0-test13-pre4 nfsd Oops rears it head again |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I bet that others will have other recommendations, but so far I have at > least personally had good luck with the eepro100.
The 3c905C is a well manufactured and very feature-rich NIC which at present appears to have fewer problem reports than eepro100, 8139 or tulip.
Available in PCI, Cardbus, Mini-PCI. A dual-interface PCI version has just been released (3c982), although we've yet to hear of anyone trying it with Linux.
3com provide full specs without any NDA restrictions, plus a GPL'ed driver.
Perhaps most significantly, the 905 has full scatter/gather support. This isn't used at present, but Alexey's zerocopy-sendfile patches do utilise it. He currently has scatter-gather support for acenic, 3c905 and sunhme. I don't know what the plans are to support other 100 mbps NICs.
The in-kernel 3c59x.c isn't the world's fastest driver. On the todo list for 2.5 is MMIO support, scatter-gather maintenance, optional use of DPD polling and implementation of the onboard multicast hash filter. And implementation of the on-board VLAN support if 2.5 becomes VLAN-capable.
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