Re: NE2k driver issue

Samium Gromoff (root@ibe.miee.ru)
Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:47:32 +0300 (MSK)


" Alan Cox wrote:"
>
> > > the time. This means it is generating interrupts even when you aren't
> > > listening to anything.
> >
> > But the odd thing is that the soundcard interrupts tentupled the
> > samba throughput. Which sounds like a driver-handoff-to-ksoftirqd
> > problem.
>
> Or an IRQ routing bug
>
Okay guys, new data on this issue.
the kernel 2.4.17 which i used so far had this issue - ie the transfer rate drop
400k -> 20-30k without esd.
i recently switched to 2.4.19-pre3 and the behaviour reverted:
now it drops 300k -> 50k due to esd active.

i think both behaviours are broken, cause the 2.4.17 case clearly shows that
ne2k perfectly runs at full speed with _active_ esd.

ie summarizing we have:
2.4.17: esd -> 20k bumps to 400k
2.4.19p3: esd -> 300k drops to 50k

regards, Samium Gromoff
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