Re: 2.4.x high irq contention

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
22 Apr 2003 14:47:53 +0100

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.

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