From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:50:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:50:26 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:27149 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:50:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:49:17 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Frank de Lange , Alan Cox , Manfred Spraul , dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware Message-ID: <20010113024917.B22380@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010113014807.B29757@unternet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:56:24PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 12 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] With disks it is very hard > to get the same kind of irq load - Linux will merge the requests and do at > least 1kB worth of transfer per interrupt etc. On a ne2k 100Mbps PCI card, Actually, without mult count you will do only 512b of I/O per interrupt on IDE. Regardless of merging etc. Still doesn't reach nic levels, but it's _bad_ anyway :-) -- * Jens Axboe * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/