[Adding Michael Chan, who seems to look after bnx2, to the cc list] > To clarify it's an Intel Dual Core Xeon (I just wound up as thinking of > them all as amd64s). Network card driver in use is the one defined by > CONFIG_BNX2. Kernel's monolithic.
>From a quick look at bnx2.c, it seems that the driver gives the NIC (firmware?) a block of memory to DMA stats into, and just reads from that memory in its get_stats method. So if you're seeing wonky stats from the NIC intermittently, my best guess would be that firmware is occasionally writing junk into the stats block. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
