From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: Memory corruption in 8390.c ? Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:00:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20060622120014.GA13681@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <20060622023029.GA6156@gondor.apana.org.au> <20060622.012609.25474139.davem@davemloft.net> <20060622083037.GB26083@gondor.apana.org.au> <20060622.013440.97293561.davem@davemloft.net> <1150976063.15275.146.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1150976016.3120.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alan Cox , David Miller , herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, snakebyte@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:45614 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161103AbWFVMAQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:00:16 -0400 To: Arjan van de Ven Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1150976016.3120.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 01:33:36PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 12:34 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The 8390 change (corrected version) also makes 8390.c faster so should > > be applied anyway, > > 8390 is such a race monster that a few cycles matter a lot! :-) It sure is. Back in the old days I could saturate a 10 Mbit ethernet segment using a Western Digital 8003 (the 8 bit ISA card) in a 386DX40 (running Linux 1.0, 1.2, and 1.3). Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands