On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 18:51, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Greg Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:31:49 +1100
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:45, Andi Kleen wrote: 
> > > Normally TSO was supposed to fix that.
> > 
> > Sure, except that the last time SGI looked at TSO it was
> > extremely flaky.  I gather that's much better now, but TSO
> > still has a very small size limit imposed by the stack (not
> > the hardware).
> 
> Oh you have TSO disabled?  That explains a lot.
> 
> Yes, it's been a bumpy road, and there are still some
> e1000 lockups, but in general things should be smooth
> these days.

So, given 2.6.16 on tg3 hardware, would your advice be to
enable TSO by default?

Greg
-- 
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.


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