Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Mar 1998 11:51:48 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Thread+network crashes in 2.0/2.1 |
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On 1 Mar 1998, Jes Degn Soerensen wrote: > > Yes, getting the eepro100's going seems to be a big problem.
We haven't had any problems with the 100's: the original eepro (10 Mbps) seem to be real crap.
The tulip-based cards seem to get better performance when everything aligns correctly: the eepro100 seems to never perform in a stellar manner, but it is a lot more reliable and never performance badly either.
Note that our setup has fairly long cables: everything is within specifications and the cable quality is good, but it may well be that this is one factor that brings on problems. Maybe the tulip cards work better on short lines with no line delay, for example - but the fact remains that the Transmeta network is easily within spec (we're not pushing it, we're just approaching getting close to the max length) and the tulip cards had problems while the eepro100 do not.
I'm sure there are other good cards: I _thought_ the tulip ones were supposed to be among the best. So I'm not saying that the eepro100 is the best card out there, but I'd personally trust it more than others if only because I've seen a lot of them work under conditions that broke other cards..
> We have quite a few of them here, and not once with the PCI NIC's have > I heard of anyone here having them going at full blast in full-duplex > mode. The only case where I have heard of them going full blast was a > test using a the eepro on the motherboard of one of the new p2 LX > motherboards.
I agree that we haven't gotten top performance with the eepro100, but with the tulips we had packets just getting lost etc. Losing a few packets due to the collision detection being flaky means that even if you get perfect performance for everything else, the actual bandwidth you get at an application layer is only a small fraction of what it should be.
In short, I'll take a steady 5MB/s every day over a flaky 10MBps that occasionally drops to 100kBps (yes, it really dropped to just kilobytes per second when it was doing badly with the tulip thing.. )
Linus
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