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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:52:04 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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        Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.12-ac4 10Mbit NE2k interrupt load kills p166
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:54:46PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> A faster machine will take as long as a slow machine with an ne2000. It
> doesn't matter if its an 8Mb 386 or a dual athlon, it will spend almost all
> of its ne2000 handling time poking bytes across an 8MHz bus.

Put another way: if you want a kernel that's optimised for 386es, use 2.0.

		-ben
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