** Reply to message from "David Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 3 Oct 2001 
12:16:26 -0400


> Has anyone done "research" or comparisons that would gauge performance of 10/100 
>Ethernet NICs and their recent drivers for RH7.1 systems?  I've a suspicion that my 
>LinkSYS LNE100TX isn't performing well, even with module options to force full-duplex 
>and linkspeed.

I believe work on the tulip drivers continues apace. Here is the changelog from Alan 
Cox's 2.4.10-ac4 kernel. Note the tulip changes:

2.4.10-ac4
                          o       Switch to Linus behaviour for kmap              
(Trond Myklebust)
                                  in generic_file_write - should fix NFS oopses
                                  | I dont have any highmem boxes so you get to test 8)
                          o       ext3 deadlock versus truncate fix               
(Tachino Nobuhiro)
                          o       Small reiserfs transaction fix                  
(Nikita Danilov)
                          o       Fix a fencepost error in the vm decision making (Rik 
van Riel)
                          o       Shmem accounting fix                            
(Christoph Rohland)
                          o       BH async flag changes from 2.4.10               
(Andrea Arcangeli)
                          o       Remove wbinvd macro the acpi people re-added    
(Dave Jones)
                          o       Make the kiobuf init code only clean needed     
(Andrew Bond)
                                  fields (noticably speeds up Oracle)
                          o       Move DMI scanning earlier in the kernel boot    
(Stelian Pop)
                                  | This is needed to detect the vaio early enough
                          o       Try and fix 21041 problems with tulip, better   
(Herbert Xu)
                          o       Tulip rx dropped calculation
                          o       Add further PCI idents                          
(Jeff Garzik)
                          o       Add another ident to the clgen fb               
(Jeff Garzik)
                          o       Add intel i830 to the agp code idents           
(Christof Efkemann)
                          o       pl2303 usb serial fixes                         
(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
                          o       ipconfig typo fix                               
(Ralf Baechle)
                          o       Fix user mode linux build with new ptrace       
(Jeff Dike)
                          o       JFFS tags update                                
(David Woodhouse)
                          o       Kill of remaining old style video4linux inits   
(Ladis Michl)
                          o       Update i2c to rev 2.6.1                         
(Christoph Hellwig)

jb

Jack Bowling
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