On Friday 31 August 2007, RedShift wrote: > > As you may know, the forcedeth driver has a provision to limit the > > amount of work done by the driver per invocation of the irq handler. > > As far as I can tell, this was implemented specifically because > > there is some broken hardware out there which can get a stuck irq > > and so the handler will then never exit and hang your machine.
Is there any information on what hardware this applies to? older vs. newer? I am getting 56MBit/sec on my network with no adjustments, so I guess this shouldn't apply to me and my MCP55. 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) -- Greg _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
