From: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [DESC 2.6.8.1-mm4] r8169 patches
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:09:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408271009.41099.jdmason@us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040823224100.GA14680@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
I've been running the driver with all of the new patchs on my AMD64 system for
over 36 hours without any problems. I have Rx/TX checksumming enabled, but
have not tried the VLAN changes.
On Monday 23 August 2004 05:41 pm, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Here comes a new serie of r8169 related patches which should allow
> the motivated users to experiment new features, namely:
> - Rx/Tx checksum offload;
> - vlan support;
> - better ethtool integration.
>
> Tx code apart, the changes exhibit some strong similarity with the
> 8139cp driver.
>
> I have not done vlan-dedicated test and there are no figures to highlight
> any performance improvement. The code does not crash in a (really slow)
> debug enabled -mm kernel and it does not seem to add huge leak.
>
> Remarks/comments/test reports welcome.
>
> --
> Ueimor
--
Jon Mason
jdmason@us.ibm.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 22:41 [DESC 2.6.8.1-mm4] r8169 patches Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:44 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 1/11] r8169: add ethtool_ops.{get_regs_len/get_regs} Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:45 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 2/11] r8169: per device receive buffer size Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:47 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 3/11] r8169: code cleanup Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:48 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 4/11] r8169: enable MWI Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:49 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 5/11] r8169: bump version number Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:51 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 6/11] r8169: sync the names of a few bits with the 8139cp driver Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:53 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 7/11] r8169: comment a gcc 2.95.x bug Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:55 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 8/11] r8169: Tx checksum offload Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:56 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 9/11] r8169: advertise DMA to high memory Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:57 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 10/11] r8169: Rx checksum support Francois Romieu
2004-08-23 22:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 11/11] r8169: vlan support Francois Romieu
2004-08-28 23:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-29 21:00 ` Francois Romieu
2004-08-29 21:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-28 23:15 ` [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 8/11] r8169: Tx checksum offload Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27 15:09 ` Jon Mason [this message]
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