From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 11:20:46 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2776.975802846@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Dec 2000 13:07:29 MDT." <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001202130202.1450B-100000@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:07:29 -0600 (CST),
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>If yes, my guess is correct, I think the proper solution is to:
>* create a generic set_config, which does nothing but convert the calls'
>semantics into ethtool semantics, and
>* add ethtool support to the specific driver
cc list trimmed.
If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring
method to query the current capacity of an interface. It is frustrating
to report "eth0 is handling 1 Megabyte/second, but we cannot tell if
that is 90% (10BaseT) or 9% (100BaseT) utilization". We should report
capacity rather than speed because speed alone is not the controlling
factor, other things like half or full duplex affect the capacity.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-30 19:16 [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux Ivan Passos
2000-12-01 9:01 ` Francois romieu
2000-12-01 10:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-01 11:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-12-01 12:30 ` Xavier Bestel
2000-12-01 12:07 ` Russell King
2000-12-01 13:00 ` Francois Romieu
2000-12-02 16:09 ` Donald Becker
2000-12-02 18:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-02 19:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-02 19:46 ` Russell King
2000-12-02 20:02 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-03 5:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-03 11:10 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-03 11:27 ` Russell King
2000-12-03 0:20 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2000-12-03 13:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-03 20:29 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-03 20:41 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-02 19:48 ` Donald Becker
2000-12-07 8:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-01 13:44 ` Philip Blundell
2000-12-01 12:15 ` Francois Romieu
2000-12-01 13:14 ` Bogdan Costescu
2000-12-01 16:26 ` Francois Desloges
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