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Subject: Re: call for testers: busdma-ified fxp(4) driver
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On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>
> Fred Clift writes:
>  >
>  > Honestly I'm suprised there is so much difference between the before and
>  > after and I'm doubting my testing methodology -- perhaps I had the duplex
>
> My guess is that the old kernel has WITNESS enabled and the new kernel
> does not.
>
> Even a 600MHz 21264 is maxed out at 75Mb/sec with WITNESS enabled.
> 50% idle without.

Could be -- I thought I used the same kernel config file, but I could be
mistaken...  No big deal as the new driver works...

Fred

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