FIX: 0.99L and timeouts

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Donald Becker wrote:

> Yes, the original code was carefully thought out.  I went through and spent
> a lot of time looking at the timing, cache impact and PCI reference count of
> the original code.  We used the 3c905 cards in P-100 and PPro-200 clusters,
> and so I tuned for that hardware on 2.0.30 and early 2.2 kernels.
> 
> Many things have changed in the kernel and hardware since then, but the PCI
> bus characteristics have remained pretty much the same so I expect that the
> old tuning is still pretty reasonable.

That's why I would _really_ appreciate to have your comments on the
changes that we are discussing here.

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY
Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868
E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De

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