On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm. So I've update bios using 7buj28uc.iso . Reverted the patches and > yes, ping latencies are still bad:
Wow. I can hardly believe how bad this is (assuming Windows has the same problem). Thanks a lot for checking this out. >> >> Carolyn's patch will likely work, at least most of the time, but I >> >> think there's a small possibility that it could cause a conflict >> >> between the BIOS and the OS over ASPM control, so I'm not 100% in >> >> support of that approach. A conflict may not happen on your >> >> machine, >> > >> > Can we base it on DMI whitelist? >> >> I don't think we can know a priori whether a machine (even your >> machine) is susceptible to a conflict. But if Carolyn forcibly > > We don't apriori now how broken machines are, true. There are 1000 > ways BIOS can break things. And yes, it will be us breaking the specs > here. But "useful machine with OS breaking specs" is better than > "machine useless for ssh". > > _If_ there's a conflict, we can try something else. > > (Has someone really seen a conflict, or is it just theoretical thing?) Completely theoretical, as far as I know. I don't even know what a conflict would look like. Maybe some unexpected ASPM enable/disable from SMM during suspend/resume or something. Things like that would likely go unnoticed anyway. Bjorn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
