Subject: Re: [ SPAM ] ixgbe in kernel driver question

From: Paweł Staszewski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:22:19 +0100

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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