On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:44:57PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 16:37, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 22:29, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > Arjan, I've not seen a comment from you on this. Can you please comment, > > > even if the comment is for me to just go away with my ATM junk? :-) > > > ATM is of, ehm, mixed quality. Some parts are ok, some are > > undermaintained it seems and might pose a security risk. Note that the > > current erratum kernel has ATM at least partially turned on but I would > > appreciate feedback on which hardware works to be able to make a more > > informed decision about what to enable exactly... "it compiles" vs "it > > gives scary warnings" isn't the bes ;) > > First, thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to reply. > Second, the HE drivers seem to be well-maintained, with Chas Williams being > active in patching as well as on the linux-atm list. The HE622 is the > hardware I am using currently in a couple of Dell 2.4GHz Xeon servers > (ServerWorks chipset). I have done some stress testing using ttcp amongst > others, and the HE is giving high throughput numbers on both the FC1 kernel > and the FC2 kernel (my custom compiled version, based on the last production > erratum). I have stress-tested over several hours, and system load stays > pretty low, and things aren't throwing warnings or 'scary' errors. > > In the interest of helping the project, I will be testing other adapters > shortly. Mike Westall of Clemson University can speak to the Interphase and ok how about this; can you check the kernels we ship occasionally and give me suggestions about *exact* config changes that would improve atm support. Like "it's better to turn THIS option on as module" etc. you know ATM a lot more than I do...
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