Re: 3c59x problems solved -- mostly

2000-09-27 Thread Mordechai Ovits
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:26:09PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > The sensible alternative, of course, is to use a multicast filter. The > 3c905B/C does have a 256 slot hash filter. Unfortunately (and > uncharacteristically), 3com forgot to document it. However it _is_ > implemented in 3com's o

Re: 3c59x problems solved -- mostly

2000-09-27 Thread Arnaud Installe
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:26:09PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Any suggestions to reduce those even further > > more than welcome, as I suppose this might cause some Multicast UDP > > packets to get dropped. :-/ > > Yes, you'll be dropping packets. Hmm... Not good. > > Would using SCSI

Re: 3c59x problems solved -- mostly

2000-09-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Arnaud Installe wrote: > > Hello, > > So I tried your suggestions. Unmasking the hd IRQs sure helps prevent a > lot of buffer overruns. There still are some, but they're down by a > factor of 100 or more... Nice to have an explanation. > Any suggestions to reduce those even further > more t