Intel Pro100+(82559) Polling Driver Problems

[Brecht Vermeulen]

> 
> The .19 patch actually installs without any major complaints... But to be
> honest
> I don't know if this is the source of the problems. The changes from
> .19 ->.20
> were pretty minor.  I could try the .19, is that currently what you use ?

without any major complaints : does this mean, no complaints ?  :-)

we use indeed 2.2.19, but I've never used the eepro100 driver, so can't
help you on this.

We had also a problem with the polling of tulip cards on the 2.4.9
kernel while it works perfectly on 2.2.19, but this is not the same of
course.


sorry that I cannot be of more help,
Brecht

> 
> >
> > Or are you using userlevel mode ?
> >
> > I think polling doesn't work in userlevel mode. (but I don't know how it
> > comes that your configuration works then)
> 
> Kernel Module.
> 
> The changes to the eepro100.c driver were made while back in the 82258 days
> I don't know whether Benjie and those guys tested with 82558 or 9...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Pramod
> 
> >
> > regards,
> > Brecht
> >
> > > Pramod John wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >     I am having some problems with the Intel 82259 polling drivers.
> > > Does anyone have any experience with them ?
> > > My system particulars are as follows:
> > >
> > >    Click:     1.2.3a
> > >    Linux:    2.2.20
> > >
> > >    I have created a generic router configuration using the
> > > make-ip-conf.pl script.  I have two interfaces and am pinging
> > > through the router with click.  I see about about a factor of 100X
> > > drop in performance when I switch the config from
> > > interrupt to polling.
> > >
> > > Any ideas why this might be occurring ?  Any suggestions on how to
> > > debug this further ?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Pramod
> > >
> > >
> >