To: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
       Scott Feldman <scott.feldman@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.24 eth0: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.
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From: "Gabor Z. Papp" <gzp@papp.hu>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:58:32 +0100
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* Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>:

| > | This isn't really an error, it's an indicator that the pci-bus doesn't
| > | really keep up, then the NIC has to increase the threshold (it tries to
| > | start sending the packet out before it's fully transferred from main
| > | memory to the NIC, it hopes the rest of the packet will have been
| > 
| > Funny because I have changed the mobo/cpu/ram from P3 to P4. Maybe
| > its related to that change?
| 
| Most probably.

This means the old P3 performs better on PCI than the new P4? :-)
Anyway I haven't noticed any incerase in speed... Hello intel.

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