Andrey's eepro100.o version

[John Muir]

Andrey:

  Where can I get just the source eepro100.c for your driver without having 
to flesh it out of the whole kernel?

Steve


At 10:11 AM 3/15/00 +0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 03:30:58PM -0800, Michael J. Rensing wrote:
>>I've got a 39 node cluster running, all with the Intel 82588 chip.
>>Currently, the systems are running a 2.2.12-20 kernel with the 1.06
>>eepro100 drivers. I'm getting the "Transmit timed out / Trying to
>>restart the transmitter" problem so many people have been discussing.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me what the best (current) solution is?
>>a) upgrade to 1.09l
>>b) use Intel drivers
>>c) use Andrei's drivers (where do I get them)
>>d) other solution
>
>I recommend (c) :-)
>The necessary changes are incorporated into 2.2.15pre13 and later kernels
>in ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.15pre/
>
>For 2.3 kernels the driver is available at
>ftp://ftp.sw.com.sg/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/v2.3/
>
>>
>>Also, will this really fix things, or could I be risking further
>>problems?
>
>My changes address exactly the core reasons of the problems and implement
>- accurate tbusy management without race conditions (except the one forced
>   by the hardware design)
>- correct buffer ring refilling (the usual reason for card hangs and
>   thus timeouts, happen under high load)
>- correct multicast list setup (avoiding stray pointers in the TX ring)
>- thoroughly tested TX timeout handler to avoid looping timeouts because of
>   incomplete reset and reconfiguration.
>
>I haven't heard about more problems with my clone of the driver (except not
>clear problems with 82559ER cards and interrupt acknowledgement).  I
>personally use this version driver on rather loaded and critical servers.
>
>Best regards
>					Andrey V.
>					Savochkin

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