From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263179AbTDVOdx (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:33:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263171AbTDVOdx (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:33:53 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:1502 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263179AbTDVOdw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:33:52 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.4.x high irq contention From: Alan Cox To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: Anton Petrusevich , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030422124042.200a3a60.skraw@ithnet.com> References: <20030422033201.GA523@casus.home.my> <20030422124042.200a3a60.skraw@ithnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1051019272.14881.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 22 Apr 2003 14:47:53 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.