em network issues

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 01:00:08PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
M> = I'd appreciate if people who are observing the problem will report
M> = whether adding DEVICE_POLLING option to kernel config helps them
M> = or not. This will help to tell whether the problem is in the above
M> = quote or in the import of new versions from vendor.
M> 
M> I tried this yesterday -- before writing to net at . I saw the "system" component 
M> of the total load being rather high and then enabled polling.
M> 
M> Again, I did not wait long enough to check, whether the system will cease 
M> communicating completely before enabling polling on em, but the "system" load 
M> was shooting way up upon starting my backup procedure even when I switched to 
M> DEVICE_POLLING-using kernel.

We aren't currently speaking about performance, we need to know whether
kernel with DEVICE_POLLING option makes NIC work stable.

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