Re: e1000 driver 2.6.18 - how to waste processor cycles

2006-11-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Jesse Brandeburg wrote: On 11/9/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the case I am referring to, the memory is already mapped with a previous call, which means it may be getting mapped twice. I guess maybe I'm not keeping up with you. Thi

Re: e1000 driver 2.6.18 - how to waste processor cycles

2006-11-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jesse Brandeburg wrote: On 11/9/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the case I am referring to, the memory is already mapped with a previous call, which means it may be getting mapped twice. I guess maybe I'm not keeping up with you. This is what I see looking in 2.6.18, i

Re: [PATCH]: e1000: prevent statistics from getting garbled during reset.

2006-03-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linas Vepstas wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:14:56PM -0700, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: Yes, we need one. The adapter needs to maintain these stats from the registers in the kernel structure and not its own local variables. Did you read the code to see what the adapter does with thes

Re: [PATCH]: e1000: prevent statistics from getting garbled during reset.

2006-03-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linas Vepstas wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:39:28PM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: Please review, sign-off/ack, and forward upstream. --linas Per feedback, here's a slightly more human-readable version. --linas [PATCH]: e1000: prevent statistics from getting garbled during reset.

Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

2006-02-24 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Awesome. Now all we need is someone to write the bcm series for wireless and ndiswrapper can go away. Jeff James Ketrenos wrote: Intel is pleased to announce the launch of an open source project to support the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection mini-PCI express adapter (IPW3945).

Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

2005-12-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Al Boldi wrote: The current ip / ifconfig configuration is arcane and inflexible. The reason being, that they are based on design principles inherited from the last century. In a GNU/OpenSource environment, OpenMinds should not inhibit themselves achieving new design-goals to enable a flexi

Re: e1000 82571 Packet Splitting

2005-11-22 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jesse Brandeburg wrote: this should be on netdev. On 11/22/05, Jeff V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have noted that the e1000 driver is now supporting DMA splitting of the packet header and payload into separate pages. I also noticed that none of the config options enable i