From: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:21:38 -0700
> Moreover, since e1000 suffers from reordering/write-combining > problems on the 8132, I'm starting to see an (ugly) pattern here. I > didn't know that tg3 has a whole blacklist for this, could this > affect other network cards as well? The tg3 is probably more susceptible to this problem because of how it uses a software structure in memory for interrupt status and RX/TX descriptor table head/tail indexes. Whereas the e1000 always has to synchronize with MMIO register reads to get interrupt status and the indexes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
