Re: 2.4.24 eth0: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.

[Martin Josefsson]

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 18:39, Gabor Z. Papp wrote:

> | I think you ran the eepro100 driver in 2.4.23 and now in 2.4.24 you are
> | using the e100 driver, am I correct?
> 
> No, you aren't.

Ok, this time I actually looked at the sources instead of using my
memory which evidently, isn't that good.

You are right, it's the eepro100 driver that prints the messages. But I
was correct that it's the e100 driver that decreases it again :)

Sorry for the confusion.

> | 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.

Scott, disregard most of what I wrote :)
But I still don't really see why the e100 driver decreases the threshold
all the time...

-- 
/Martin

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