nfe driver 6.2 stable

[Jos Backus]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:53:43AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:16:18AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote:
[snip]
>  > Both pcm0 and nfe0 are mobo devices. Is there any way to change the assigned
>  > interrupts?
>  > 
> 
> It seems that your NIC doesn't have MSI/MSIX capability. Also the
> NIC is LOM version so I guess there is no easy way to change the
> interrupt number. ATM polling(4) seems to be the only way to reliably
> run nfe(4) under shared interrupt situations. Of course, you may
> encounter additional latency from the polling(4) but it normally
> wouldn't affect desktop usage patterns. I have a plan that will add
> an additional knob that have nfe(4) work more reliably under shared
> interrupt environments. However that would happen after branching 7.

Thanks for the additional information, Pyun. This is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium
mobo. polling(4) works just fine for the way I use this system.

Cheers,
-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com