EM and TSO

Jack Vogel jfvogel at gmail.com
Wed May 16 18:18:30 UTC 2007


On 5/16/07, Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst at clara.net> wrote:
> * Jack Vogel (jfvogel at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> >  I introduced a change yesterday that limited TSO to PCI Express
> >  adapters, I did this more for avoidance rather than a bug fix, and
> >  I'm not 100% sure its the right thing, so I thought I would poll
> >  everyone, do you have a PCI-X adapter and are using TSO without
> >  problems and wish to keep the support in?
> >
> >  If no one is then I'll just leave it as is.
>
> We put CURRENT on one of our Sun X4200's for some MySQL tests a few days
> ago and haven't noticed any problems, though it's only handled a few
> million packets so far.
>
> Does this change remove support or just disable it by default?

It removed it, but Andre and my own guilty conscience has convinced
me that I should change it back, once I get an MSI/X bug that was
discovered with the code solved there will be another delta that will
reenable it for PCI-X again.

Jack


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