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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>,
	PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
	John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Subject: Re: E100 RX ring buffers continued...
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:32:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34orzj23w.fsf@intrepid.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38whchrer.fsf@intrepid.localdomain> (Krzysztof Halasa's message of "Sat\, 22 Aug 2009 16\:09\:00 +0200")

Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:

> There is also apparently unsupported and mostly undocumented "flexible
> mode". The question to Intel's experts: can the flexible mode be used
> anyway? I can write the code, but need info about eg. the data
> structures (RFD, how does it work in flexible mode) and a confirmation
> the silicon (or maybe which silicon) will work with it.

I can see there is some "erratum" in 82559 related to flexible RX mode.
It seems we're not affected, though - it requires more than 1 RBD (per
RFD I hope) for the problem to happen.

Do I get it right?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-22 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-22 14:09 E100 RX ring buffers continued Krzysztof Halasa
2009-08-22 15:32 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2009-08-23  1:15 ` David Miller
2009-08-23 15:30   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-08-23 18:20     ` Walt Holman
2009-08-23 20:43       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-08-24  2:03         ` David Miller
     [not found]           ` <m3bpm5v65e.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>
2009-08-24 20:10             ` David Miller

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