RE: [PATCH] [broken?] Add MSI support to e1000

From: Nguyen, Tom L
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 10:50:37 EST


On Friday, August 20 Roland Dreier wrote:
>However, on my Dell box with 865 chipset (lspci below), loading e1000
>(from kernel 2.6.8.1 with this patch applied) with MSI=1 only works
>for a short time (maybe ~1000 e1000 interrupts) before network traffic
>stops.
>
>Is there something wrong with the patch? Something wrong with the
>kernel MSI support? Something wrong with the hardware?

I do not see anything wrong with the patch and the kernel MSI support
because it works for a short time. Ganesh may provide an answer on the
MSI support in e1000 hardware.

Thanks,
Long
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