Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:50:03 +0200 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.x high irq contention |
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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
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