Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

Jan Kasprzak
2001-04-17T15:02:46Z

Alan Cox wrote:
: > The long story: My server is Athlon 850 on ASUS A7V, 256M RAM.
: > Seven IDE discs, one SCSI disc. The controllers and NIC are as follows
: > (output of lspci):
:
: See the VIA chipset report on www.theregister.co.uk about corruption problems
: with VIA chipsets. The cases seen on Linux included short and also sometimes
: stale/corrupted DMA transfers.
:
: Nothing in your report says it is or isnt going to be a VIA chipset problem
: but once a fixed BIOS is out for your board that would be a good first step.
: If it still does it then, its worth digging for kernel naughties
:
I don't think I have 686b southbridge. I have 686 (without "b"):

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0305 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8305
00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 22)
00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10)
00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10)
00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10)
00:04.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30
[...]

-Yenya

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