Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2009-02-05

Re: [ SPAM ] ixgbe in kernel driver question

From: Paweł Staszewski <hidden>
Date: 2009-01-30 16:22:23

And i use kernel 2.6.28.2
my lspci shows my intel card as:
...
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 10dd (rev 01)
...

My installed card in this machine is:
Intel® 82598EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller with CX4 interface




Paweł Staszewski pisze:
I have question about ixgbe in kernel driver compared to ixgbe driver 
that is on sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42302&package_id=247088 


What is difference between this drivers ?
and does driver in kernel 2.6.28.2

ixgbe: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver - version 1.3.30-k2
ixgbe: Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Intel Corporation.
ixgbe 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

is this driver closest version to :
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=611160&group_id=42302 


on e1000.sourcerofge ??


Or this driver have different versions releases ? with different 
changes that are made in kernel tree network drivers

because i have problems with in kernel ixgbe drivers that i can 
compare to some fixes that are made in:
1.3.31.5 driver on e1000 site
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=611160&group_id=42302 


i think about this fix:

cpu utilization fix for MSI and legacy interrupts in kernels with 
CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE enabled but default (non multiqueue) 
aware qdisc loaded





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