David Rees a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Luis Menina <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for the tip ! I've found a patch proposal to add an option to disable >> that polling, but it seems it wasn't applied. >> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-09/msg03838.html >> >> I'm I overlooking something or the only way to improve the situation ATM is >> to recompile that module ? > > Try adding "options forcedeth poll_interval=65535" to your > /etc/modprobe.conf file. > >>From the description: "Interval determines how frequent timer > interrupt is generated by [(time_in_micro_secs * 100) / (2^10)]. Min > is 0 and Max is 65535. (int)". > > -Dave >
Thanks for the tip. Doing so decreases the wakeups to 30-35, pata_amd being now the worst offender (due to hal polling). I saw no real network performance drawback. Many thanks for your help ! -- Luis _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
