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From: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work?
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:32:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B737FE4.3D0998D3@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108042028320.16941-100000@infradead.org>

Riley Williams wrote:

> One of my systems has SIX ethernet cards, these being three ISA and
> two PCI NE2000 clones and a DEC Tulip. Here's the relevant section of
> modules.conf on the system in question:
> 
>  Q> alias eth0 ne
>  Q> options eth0 io=0x340
>  Q> alias eth1 ne
>  Q> options eth1 io=0x320
>  Q> alias eth2 ne
>  Q> options eth2 io=0x2c0
>  Q> alias eth3 ne2k-pci
>  Q> alias eth4 ne2k-pci
>  Q> alias eth5 tulip

You have six drivers loaded, when you only need three (i.e.
io=0x340,0x320,0x2c0 for ne options etc. etc).  So you end
up wasting some memory, and a worse icache behaviour as well.
(the latter is probably a non-issue if you are happy with ISA)

Paul.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-10  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-03 21:29 How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? Mark Atwood
2001-08-04  1:21 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04  1:32   ` Thomas Duffy
2001-08-04  2:31     ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04  4:39     ` Jim Roland
2001-08-04 19:35     ` Riley Williams
2001-08-06 19:59       ` Thomas Duffy
2001-08-06 22:56         ` Riley Williams
2001-08-06 23:46           ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-07  7:04             ` Riley Williams
2001-08-07 10:49               ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-07 19:04                 ` Riley Williams
2001-08-07 21:46                   ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-07 22:33                     ` Tim Jansen
2001-08-07 23:06                       ` Josh Wyatt
2001-08-07 23:35                     ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08  0:04                       ` Josh Wyatt
2001-08-08  6:28                         ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 10:59                           ` Alan Cox
2001-08-08  0:08                       ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08  6:40                         ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08  8:41                           ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 10:52                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-08 11:40                               ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 22:04                               ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 21:09                             ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08  0:11                       ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08  6:47                         ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08  0:16                       ` Mark Atwood
2001-08-08 20:26                         ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08  9:30                       ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-08 21:31                         ` Riley Williams
2001-08-08 21:42                           ` Alan Cox
2001-08-08 22:24                           ` Horst von Brand
     [not found]                     ` <9kpub6$8fu$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-09 20:05                       ` Colonel
2001-08-10  6:32       ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2001-08-10 21:25         ` Riley Williams
2001-08-15  4:32           ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-03-28  2:52   ` How to tell how much to expect from a fd Mark Atwood
2002-03-28 13:27     ` Eric Lammerts
2002-03-31  3:03     ` David Schwartz
2001-08-04  4:33 ` How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? Jim Roland
2001-08-04  4:48 ` Jim Roland
     [not found] ` <15SnZL-05h4nQC@fmrl06.sul.t-online.com>
2001-08-06 19:46   ` How to hack a network driver to use a specific ethX (was Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work?) Mark Atwood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-07 20:51 How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work? Stuart Lynne
2001-08-08  2:36 ` Bill Nottingham
2001-08-08  5:45   ` Greg KH
2001-08-08 13:59 Matt_Domsch

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