Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262436AbVC3U0X (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:26:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262477AbVC3U0N (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:26:13 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:54194 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262436AbVC3UZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:25:45 -0500 Message-ID: <424B0B38.9060809@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:25:28 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: indrek.kruusa@tuleriit.ee CC: Andi Kleen , Asfand Yar Qazi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux? References: <4242865D.90800@qazi.f2s.com> <20050324093032.GA14022@havoc.gtf.org> <20050324162706.GJ17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <42432A9F.3090507@pobox.com> <424B013B.3010109@pobox.com> <424B0946.8060909@tuleriit.ee> In-Reply-To: <424B0946.8060909@tuleriit.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1307 Lines: 48 Indrek Kruusa wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>> Jeff Garzik writes: >>> >>>> I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief >>>> moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked >>>> flawlessly for me. >>>> >>>> RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> It does not seem to support DAC (or rather it breaks with DAC >>> enabled), which makes it not very useful on any machine with >3GB of >>> memory. >> >> >> >> Driver bug. I can futz with it and get it to do 64-bit on my Athlon64. > > > > Continuing with off-topic questions: is this "checksum off-load" usable > with r8169? Is there any other reason (performance?) to use hardware > TCP/IP checksumming than just "cool, a little chunk of software is > hardwired again"? It's usable, and enables "zero copy" feature. > I have seen you mentioned that this causes mainly troubles if you try to > set it with ethtool. Is it still true? Not sure what you are referring to. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/