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From: Steve Modica <modica@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	johnip@sgi.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	jes@sgi.com
Subject: Re: Tigon3 5701 PCI-X recv performance problem
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 08:17:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8802E6.5030601@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031010192036.GA31727@wotan.suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:

>>Customers running Suse on Altix have to edit modules.conf anyhow so they 
>>use the tg3 module (instead of bcm).  So when they do this, we could easily 
>>have them add an argument to the modules.conf line and we avoid a kernel 
>>build. This let's us run with a standard ia64 kernel.
> 
> 
> Doesn't it already have a rx_copy_break argument? If yes just set it to
> zero and it will always copy. If not add it.

The problem with this solution is that it also impacts 5704 cards, which 
don't have the alignment issue. We are figuring all this out.  We may 
just switch over completely and replace the 5701 cards.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-11 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-08 17:12 Tigon3 5701 PCI-X recv performance problem John Partridge
2003-10-08 17:10 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-08 17:52   ` John Partridge
2003-10-08 18:26     ` David S. Miller
2003-10-08 19:02       ` John Partridge
2003-10-08 19:11         ` Steve Modica
2003-10-08 19:15           ` David S. Miller
2003-10-08 18:21   ` Steve Modica
2003-10-08 18:29     ` David S. Miller
2003-10-08 18:37     ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-08 19:22       ` David S. Miller
2003-10-08 20:22         ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-08 20:24           ` David S. Miller
2003-10-08 20:33             ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-08 20:32               ` David S. Miller
2003-10-08 20:46                 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-08 20:50                   ` David S. Miller
2003-10-10 19:05           ` Steve Modica
2003-10-10 19:20             ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-11 13:17               ` Steve Modica [this message]
2003-10-11 13:19                 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-11 17:50                   ` David S. Miller
2003-10-13 19:53                     ` John Partridge
2003-10-13 19:51                       ` David S. Miller
2003-10-14 16:49                     ` John Partridge
2003-10-14 16:53                       ` David S. Miller
2003-11-11  1:24                         ` John Partridge
2003-11-11  2:29                           ` David S. Miller
2003-11-11 20:04                             ` John Partridge
2003-11-11 20:24                               ` David S. Miller
2003-11-11 21:26                                 ` John Partridge
2003-11-11 21:32                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-03 22:11                                     ` John Partridge
2003-11-11 21:39                                 ` John Partridge
2003-11-11 23:09                                   ` David S. Miller
2003-11-11 23:53                                   ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-12  1:46                                     ` John Partridge
2003-11-12  6:19                                       ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-12  7:05                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-12 15:32                                           ` John Partridge
2003-11-12 15:43                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-11 20:25                               ` David S. Miller
2003-11-11 20:57                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-14 18:47                   ` John Partridge

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