Re: 3c905C for a linux router
Ralph Doncaster <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> > I'm planning to rebuild the driver with rx_copybreak=0 to try to improve > > the performance with smaller packets. The other thing I'd like to be able > > to do is rx interrupt mitigation like the Tulip 21143. The driver only > > seems to support tx interrupt mitigation though. Is there another driver > > I can use? > > The 21143 interrupt mitigation is a hardware feature. > > Deferring Rx interrupts requires hardware support. While it's possible > to change the Rx interrupt setting to only interrupt with every second > or third packet, low rate traffic (imagine 'ping') will be unacceptably > delayed. Low rate traffic for this box would be >10mbps, so 1 interrupt ever 5-10 packets would be fine with me. If it's only a couple lines to change in the source I'd be willing to try it out. -Ralph _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex