Subject: Re: wm(4) with i82546GB on an AlphaServer ES40
To: NetBSD/alpha Discussion List <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/11/2005 18:37:48
At 06:13 PM 3/11/2005, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>I've now got a dual-port optical i82546GB card installed in the ES40,
>and testing with ~yesterday's -current (and if_wm.c rev. 1.99), _and_
>with '#define _PCI_HAVE_DMA64' added to the alpha's pci_machdep.h, the
>wm(4) driver still won't go very fast, even with "big" writes (and with
>all the csum offloading enabled):

Have you run a profiling kernel to see where it's spending its time?


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