Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:48:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.com> To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DLINK 21140 Card Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970915124738.17056E-100000@thor.idirect.com> In-Reply-To: <199709151638.JAA12987@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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Okay, well I adjusted the level from 128 to 48 (to match RXDESC) and it is looking good so far. On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Jim Shankland wrote: > >From jlixfeld@idirect.com Mon Sep 15 06:04:06 1997 > X-Authentication-Warning: thor.idirect.com: jlixfeld owned process doing -bs > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:07:35 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.com> > To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> > cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: DLINK 21140 Card > In-Reply-To: <199709150503.WAA05355@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.com> writes: > > > I'm not sure if it will work or not, but I'm going to change it > > to match TULIP_RXDESCS. That is set to 48. I'm not sure if it > > will let me, or if it will even run. If you think not, let me > > know. If I should change it to 32, should I not change RX to > > 32 from 48 just to keep things symmetrical?! > > > > On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Jim Shankland wrote: > > > > > Try reducing the value of TULIP_TXDESCS from 128 to 32, recompile the > > > driver, and see if that helps; please report back either way. > > > > > > Jim Shankland > > > Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. > > The important thing for the purpose of this experiment is to reduce > the size of the tulip_softc structure to < 4 KB. The number of TXDESCS > and RXDESCS need not be the same. > > When the size of the tulip_softc structure is > 4 KB, it is possible to > see failures quite similar to what you are seeing. On the other hand, > your problem might be entirely unrelated. > > Jim Shankland > Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. >
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