Re: eepro100 frame errors with SMP

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:54:51 +0100 (MET)

Langis, Richard wrote:
> I'm no expert on anything, but I DO have a quad-processor system with one
> Pro/100B and one Pro/100+, running kernel 2.2.0. ifconfig shows no TX (or
> RX, for that matter) errors. cat /proc/pci shows latency at 128 for both
> adapters.

It is especially the OTHER PCI devices that are interesting in this
respect.

I have the impression that some chipsets can get into a state where
the CPU is banging on main-memory, that PCI busmasters don't get their
bandwidth requirement.

Roger.

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