On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com> > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:53:12 -0700 > > Your CPU use is quite a bit higher than ours. > > Yeah, but his faster cpu is all being burnt to a crisp > doing PIO accesses to the 3c59x card. > > I found that once NAPI was happening, userspace seemed to get a > fairly decent amount of time. > > Unfortunately, NAPI won't help him with the current way the 3c59x > driver works. It needs to provide a way to use MEM I/O before NAPI > would start to be of use to him. Well, I've already decided to retire the 3c905cx cards and drop in a couple of the Pro/1000 cards I recently bought. Considering the Intel GigE cards cost me ~$50 now and the 3Coms are ~$45, I'd say anyone willing to update 3c59x.c has misplaced priorities or too much time on their hands... -Ralph - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
