On Fri, Jan 12 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] With disks it is very hard > to get the same kind of irq load - Linux will merge the requests and do at > least 1kB worth of transfer per interrupt etc. On a ne2k 100Mbps PCI card, Actually, without mult count you will do only 512b of I/O per interrupt on IDE. Regardless of merging etc. Still doesn't reach nic levels, but it's _bad_ anyway :-) -- * Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Alan Cox
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Frank de Lange
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Alan Cox
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Manfred Spraul
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Linus Torvalds
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Frank de Lange
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Linus Torvalds
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Frank de Lange
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Manfred Spraul
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Frank de Lange
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Jens Axboe
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Andrew Morton
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Linus Torvalds
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Andrew Morton
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Russell King
- Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic (was: Re: QUESTION... Manfred Spraul
- Re: Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic (was: Re: QUES... Manfred Spraul
- Re: Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic J . A . Magallon
- Re: Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic (was: Re: QUES... J . A . Magallon
- Re: Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic J . A . Magallon
- Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, h... Zdenek Kabelac