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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:24:19 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Call for testers for new ThunderLAN driver
Message-ID:  <199809010024.SAA05448@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808311728.NAA04332@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>

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> - Added code to raise the PCI latency timer value all the way up, as
>   recommended by the manual.

Please don't do this (at least not by default).  If the PCI bus is
idle, the card will be able to burst as long as it wants.  If the
PCI bus isn't very idle, the other devices on the bus will experience
un-fair latency because your driver has unilaterally decide that
it deserves more bus time than everyone else.

--
Justin

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