Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:34:40 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device. |
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Jeff Garzik writes: > And in another message, On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > 3) The acenic/gbit performance anomalies have been cured > > by reverting the PCI mem_inval tweaks. > > > Just to be clear, acenic should or should not use MWI? > > And can a general rule be applied here? Newer Tulip hardware also > has the ability to enable/disable MWI usage, IIRC.
I think this is an Acenic specific issue. The second processor on the Acenic board is only there to work around bugs in their DMA controller.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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