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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad tg3 performance on S10 netbook
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:07:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496E7E5E.8010708@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114234745.GA23993@xw6200.broadcom.net>

Matt Carlson wrote:

>> Thanks,
>> Ben
> 
> Does the following patch fix the problem?

It does seem to fix the rx-miss.  Our application still runs
sub-optimal until we do something that uses lots of CPU, but
at least the NIC doesn't appear to be dropping packets now.

I tested this patch on the standard tg3 in the 2.6.25.20 kernel,
btw.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-15  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14 22:18 Bad tg3 performance on S10 netbook Ben Greear
2009-01-14 23:17 ` Michael Chan
2009-01-14 23:47   ` Ben Greear
2009-01-14 23:47 ` Matt Carlson
2009-01-15  0:07   ` Ben Greear [this message]

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