>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> writes:
Jeff> On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> 3) The acenic/gbit performance anomalies have been cured by
>> reverting the PCI mem_inval tweaks.
Jeff> Just to be clear, acenic should or should not use MWI?
Jeff> And can a general rule be applied here? Newer Tulip hardware
Jeff> also has the ability to enable/disable MWI usage, IIRC.
AceNIC always used to do this until the ZC patches appeared. It's a
recommendation from the hardware designers so I figure it's a bug in
the AceNIC hardware. I can probably go dig up the details on this, but
it's hidden somewhere deep down, ie. it's been ages since I looked at
it last.
Jes
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