[eepro100] Re: 2.2.18p18 eepro100 issues (packets per irq, shared irqs)

Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:18:15 +0000 (GMT)


> They share an irq, no matter if I'm using intels e100.o driver or the stock 
> linux one.  For performance reasons, can I make them each have a different 
> irq?  Doing it from ifconfig gives me a notsupported error, with either 
> driver.

Under 2.2 no. Under 2.4 maybe

> no kernel hacker...can I get the stock linux driver to do multiple packets 
> per irq with some config settings?

We dont have sufficient docs to figure this out easily. Intel upload magic
numbers to the card microcode