From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263301AbTDVRiJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:38:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263305AbTDVRiJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:38:09 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:48647 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263301AbTDVRiI (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:38:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:50:03 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Alan Cox Cc: casus@mail.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x high irq contention Message-Id: <20030422195003.30b6177f.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <1051019272.14881.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <20030422033201.GA523@casus.home.my> <20030422124042.200a3a60.skraw@ithnet.com> <1051019272.14881.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 22 Apr 2003 14:47:53 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > 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. Well, handwaving about the network load/type ;-) Could as well be two RTL back-to-back, normal packets but high bandwidth. (watch collisions for this case :-) Regards, Stephan