[tulip] Permanent interrupt mitigation with 21143 quad card

[Luke Stratman]

Just a quick followup on my experiences with Ben's patch:

With the patch applied to the 2.4.20-rc1 kernel (though I imagine you
could reproduce the results on any of the 2.4.19 kernels as well), I'm
now able to obtain full speed (~95 Mbps) routing with all interfaces
active on my 21143-based quad card.  If any of you out there are trying
to do something similar for a network testbed of some kind and want to
give the patch a try, I've made it available for download from
http://halo-x.wox.org/download/misc/tulip_2.4.19.patch.  Enjoy :).

-Luke

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Greear [mailto:greearb@candelatech.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:47 PM
To: Luke Stratman
Subject: Re: [tulip] Permanent interrupt mitigation with 21143 quad card

Luke Stratman wrote:
> The patch worked perfectly, thanks a million; I'm now getting full
> throughput routing (~95 Mbps) when all four interfaces are active.  As
> you might imagine, this saved a hell of a lot in terms of time and
money
> for hardware upgrades, so thanks again.
> 
> -Luke

Please let the list know, it might induce folks to think about applying
the patch to the main kernel :)

What NICs are you using, btw?

Ben

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