Re: 3c905C for a linux router
Anton Yurchenko <[email protected]>
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Ralph Doncaster wrote: >On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Donald Becker wrote: > > > >>On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: >> >>I just checked -- the 3c905 does not have an Interrupt-in-Rx bit in the >>Rx descriptors. Most other other chips do, and my drivers always sets >>the bit. Doing otherwise is really, really horrible idea and will never >>make it into a driver I release. (Of course if you submit it to the >>kernel maintainer a dozen times, it's likely to be put in the kernel >>anyway.) >> >> > >I guess it's time to go out and buy some 21143 cards then. Looking at the >2.4.19 release drivers I don't see support for FASTROUTE. Yesterday my >box peaked at over 100mbps of aggregate traffic. So with each packet going >across the PCI bus 2x, that would put my PCI bus at over 25MBytes/sec. I >don't expect to push more than 100mbps full-duplex over 2 interfaces >(400mbps aggregate), but I think 100MBytes/sec is likely to cause PCI >saturation. > >-Ralph > > > Just to be shure is there support NAPI for 905c ? even with the 3c59x patches at http://orr.falooley.org/pub/linux/net/ ? -- Anton Yurchenko<[email protected]> Digital Generation _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex