[vortex] Re: 3Ware controller S2468 and 3Com 3c982

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Claude Pignol wrote:
> 
> > Marcel de Riedmatten has suggested to change the latency value of 3c982
> > using setpci. It changes the value (80 for eth0 can be change to 72 )
> > but the min or max latency doesn't change. It seems that setpci can not
> > change these registers. Anyway changing to 72 or a lower value doesn't
> > fix the problem.
> 
> My knowledge in this area is limited, but I think that what you want is to 
> lower the latency for 3Ware so that it doesn't keep the bus busy for so 
> long.

You want to lower the minimum grant value.  The lspci and setpci
programs use non-standard, misleading names.  That makes it more
difficult to understand and solve these problems.

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