Here are the results using this new patch:
No SMP, no ACPI: Appears to work well--transferred about 8 gigs okay
With SMP, with ACPI: Interface locks up after a few MB
With SMP, no ACPI: Interface locks up after a few MB
No SMP, with ACPI: Appears to work well--transferred about 8 gigs okay
My laptop is *finally* reaching full usability! Thanks!
I can live without SMP--this is just a single P4/HT, so I'm not losing
much.
Thanks again. If there is any debugging info you need towards fixing the
SMP compatibility issue, just let me know, but I'm not in a hurry for
it.
Bradley Hartin - bhartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Communications and Network Administrator
Straus-Frank Company
Thanks,
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Francois Romieu wrote:
> bhartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <bhartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> [...]
> > I haven't tried your latest set of patches because I haven't been able to
> > find the URL for them again (I got carried away cleaning up my bookmarks
> > recently). Let me know if there are any newer ones you'd like for me to
> > try.
>
> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20040329-2.6.5-rc2-r8169.c-test.patch
>
> It removes a possible loop in the Tx irq handler and should save some cpu
> cycles as well. Apply against 2.6.5.
>
> --
> Ueimor
>
Bradley Hartin - bhartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Communications and Network Administrator
Straus-Frank Company
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