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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:44:52 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        bag@sinbin.demos.su, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Q about 100Mb ether cards
Message-ID:  <199703101644.RAA26860@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199703101424.GAA17192@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Mar 10, 97 06:24:26 am

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> been able to get it to work. The Pro/100B is well supported; it's what I'm
> using in wcarchive and I haven't had any problems. It consumes about half
> the CPU time that the de driver does and has about the same level of

that's curious though, since both do DMA from/to mbufs. What CPU
overhead are we talking about, 1% or 10% ?

Any idea on what to look at in the de driver to improve performance
? Since I have spent a few days on it, I am moderately familiar
with that code now.

	Luigi
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