On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:11:29PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> IMHO the 'early TX start' and 'early RX interrupt' are not 'useful
> ethernet chipset features'.  They are designed soley to improve
> latency at a cost of cpu cycles, this may be appropriate to the
> desktop, but are not relevant to servers.

  Please explain why early Tx start costs CPU cycles on a bus-mastering
  NIC. I just do not see it.

  I do not think any NetBSD ethernet driver uses early Rx interrupts.

Dave

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