Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10600] New: e1000 updates rx_bytes infrequently

From: Ben Liblit <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 20:24:15 -0500

Michael Chan wrote:
> "ethtool -C eth0 stats-block-usecs" can be used to control statistics
> update frequency on most tg3 and bnx2 devices.

But not on my e1000-driven Intel 82566DC, sadly:

	# ethtool -C eth0 stats-block-usecs 50
	Cannot get device coalesce settings: Operation not supported

	# ethtool -c eth0
	Coalesce parameters for eth0:
	Cannot get device coalesce settings: Operation not supported