Re: Antwort: SCSI networking?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:40:04 +0100 (BST)

> Alan> per packet tx/rx irq's are just the current very primitive
> Alan> network card design
>
> Sure, but even 80000 divided by 10 is an awful lot ;-)

8000 irqs per second is about what you take from a 16450 UART with a fast
modem. If you have enough buffering you can get down to 0 IRQs too,m you just
need about 8Mbytes of on card buffering for RX/TX

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