From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Free Ekanayaka Subject: Should I apply the forcedeth-rt-tweak? Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:24:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87vedivpfk.fsf@64studio.com> References: <1182284627.15228.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from serverina.hacknight.org ([80.68.90.101]:32801 "EHLO serverina.hacknight.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753215AbXFTLYv (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:24:51 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [89.196.9.185]) by serverina.hacknight.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9791B14078 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:24:49 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org Hi all, I've noticed that since patch-2.6.21.4-rt13 (included) the forcedeth-rt-tweak patch http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/testing/forcedeth-rt-tweak.patch has been drop from the main rt patch. Does this mean that it should be no longer necessary? This little patch is supposed to prevent nVidia ethernet cards to permanently suck about 3% of the CPU, even though it didn't work for me. So far I've tried with 2.6.21 + 2.6.21.3 patch + rt9 patch (which includes the nforce patch) 2.6.21 + 2.6.21.4 patch + rt13 patch + nforce patch Thanks, Free