Mike Tancsa wrote:
Hi,
What values would you reccomend for a box with 4 fxp NICs in them ?
Does it follow the the INT_DELAY should be lowered as you add more NICs ?
It doesn't matter how many fxp cards you have installed - if your box acts as a
server than most probably you can
At 03:16 AM 10/20/2001 +0200, Marko Zec wrote:
It doesn't matter how many fxp cards you have installed - if your box acts
as a
server than most probably you can leave INT_DELAY at default value (Intel
proposes 0x600, but I think 0x400 would be more appropriate).
If you use your multi-fxp-card
On http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~zec/index.html you can find a 4.4-RELEASE fxp
driver source, with patches that incorporate receive interrupt bundling
microcode, borrowed from the Intel's Linux e100 driver.
Bundling interrupts for a couple of received Ethernet frames can
significantly lower interrupt
