Re: PCI_LATENCY_TIMER brain-damage in net drivers.

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:21:19 +0200


Hello,

> _I_, you, David, ..., can do that and even can fix the source for their
> personnal use.
> What about most of the 7.5 millions linux users?

I was speaking about using setpci (from the pciutils package), not hacking
the kernel.

| In theory, given information about what max_lat and min_gnt each device would
| like, the PCI support code ought to be able to try to calculate "ideal"
| latency timer values for all devices. This would be an interesting thing for
| somebody to try.

It can be done in userland. If I manage to find some free time, I'll try to
write such utility and add it to pciutils.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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