Solution: TX performance problems with 3Com 905C cards

[Marian Durkovic]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, David Burns wrote:
> The modification was to reduce the NIC interrupt rate via a rudimentary 
> hardware polling scheme based on the 3c905x countdown timer.

Well, the number of interrupts per second is really much higher than e.g. with
the fxp driver:

xl driver  TX:  13500 intrs/sec
           RX:  13800 intrs/sec

fxp driver TX:   5700 intrs/sec
           RX:   8500 intrs/sec 

David, could you perhaps send me your if_xl* files so I can test your
modifications here?


	Thanks & kind regards,


		M.

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