From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Drake Subject: Re: sky2 1.3-rc1 Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 15:34:19 +0100 Message-ID: <445B626B.1070407@gentoo.org> References: <1146667951.3056.25.camel@fc5test.deadmoose.com> <20060503120507.4558c675@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bill Hoover , Thomas Glanzmann , Bertrand Jacquin , micheleschi@libero.it, netdev@vger.kernel.org, teppic74@hotmail.com Return-path: Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:27667 "EHLO mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118AbWEEOSV (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 10:18:21 -0400 To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20060503120507.4558c675@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Here is a new version that addresses some of the outstanding bugs. > * There was a race in receive processing that would cause hang > * Some more support for Yukon Ultra found in dual-core Centrino > laptops (I want one of these). > > It does not fix the problems with dual port cards corrupting receive > data (and possibly memory). > > http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/sky2-1.3-rc1.tar.bz2 > > If this works for most people, I'll post as separate patches for 2.6.17 > tomorrow. > Barry Shilliday at http://bugs.gentoo.org/132056 reports that 1.3-rc1 solves his earlier problems introduced in v1.1 are solved. However, it's not perfect, as latencies are much higher than they used to be. v0.15: 64 bytes from 10.0.0.138: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.467 ms v1.3-rc1: 64 bytes from 10.0.0.138: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=32.9 ms Daniel