[eepro100] Performance improvement.

[Pedro Melo]

I bet some people would pay for a supported, even if binary only, decent
driver for eepro stuff... Some bussiness are almost depending on those
things ;)

Intel version of the driver just isn't good enough...


On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:22:06PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> hi Ofer...
> 
> why not sign an NDA with intel... like others have
> and provide your open source eepro equivalent driver  too ???
> 
> am thinking...since the local pc store downstairs sometimes
> work with Intels "new products" guys...maybe we can wiggle a 
> license out of them for your new drivers ???
> 
> i think like most nda, you cannot give out proprietory data
> and share info etc...etc..
> 	- dont think there'd be any problem with giving away
> 	your version of eepro100  drivers ??
> 
> 	- but why not work with existing eepro100 driver distributers ??
> 
> have fun
> alvin
> 
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ofer Fryman wrote:
> 
> > Hello Dori,
> > 
> > I got some response from people that Intel does not use GNU license for
> > their driver, so after looking at the license, which is scary, I left this
> > issue erased all code that is relevant to it, I really do not want to get in
> > trouble with Intel simply for trying to improve their products. I am now
> > looking for another chip that as an open source driver with interrupt
> > mitigation support.
> > 
> > Any way after improving only the eepro100 I got 400Mbit throughput (in and
> > out, 800Mbit passes through the driver and the card) with large packets
> > (1518Bytes), off course I use 66/64 PCI bus, my trouble remained with short
> > packets due to no interrupt mitigation, I will be happy to share my eepro100
> > code, since there is no restrictions on it.
> > 
> > If you can help me get Intel's permission to work on their driver, and also
> > get some specs on the interrupt mitigation I will be glad to go back to
> > improve this driver.
> > 
> > Ofer
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eldar, Dori [mailto:dori.eldar@intel.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:02 PM
> > To: 'ofer@shunra.co.il'
> > Subject: Re: [eepro100] Performance improvement.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I combined eepro100 and e100 drivers, I now get throughput of 84K short 
> > packets, still it is bad, is there any one out there who need performance 
> > improvement that can help improve the driver more?, I will be glad to share 
> > the new code with everybody. 
> > 
> > Well I'm interested to see your code, can you send it to me or post it some
> > where ?
> > 
> > Thanks Dori
> > 
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