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From: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] atl1: Revised Attansic L1 ethernet driver
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:33:25 -0600
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Luca Tettamanti wrote:

> Got the board, done some basic testing: so far so good :)
> 
> The controller also supports MSI and (at least with my chipset - G965)
> it works fine:
> 
> 218:      80649          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth1
> 
> which is nice, otherwise it ends up sharing the IRQ with SATA and USB.
> 
> I also have a small patch:

Thanks for the patch.  We'll add it for the next version.

FYI, TSO performance is _really_ bad; your tx speed will drop dramatically with 
TSO on (and it's on by default).  I haven't yet been able to find the problem. 
If you want to improve tx performance, turn off TSO with ethtool.

Jay