Careful here. Read the errata sheet!! I do not believe the em driver uses these parameters, and possibly for a good reason.
Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@;FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Luigi Rizzo > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:12 PM > To: Petri Helenius > Cc: Lars Eggert; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ENOBUFS > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:55:24PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: > ... > > I seem to get about 5-6 packets on an interrupt. Is this tunable? At > > just reading the source code, yes, it appears that the card has > support for delayed rx/tx interrupts -- see RIDV and TIDV definitions > and usage in sys/dev/em/* . I don't know in what units are the values > (28 and 128, respectively), but it does appear that tx interrupts are > delayed a bit more than rx interrupts. > > They are not user-configurable at the moment though, you need to rebuild > the kernel. > > cheers > luigi > > > 50kpps the card generates 10k interrupts a second. Sending generates > > way less. This is about 300Mbps so with the average packet size of > > 750 there should be room for more packets on the interface queue > > before needing to service an interrupt? > > > > What´s the way to access kernel adapter-structure? Is there an utility > > that can view the values there? > > > > > Pete > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
