From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 31 17:31:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11388 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:31:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11378 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id SAA05448; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:24:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:24:19 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199809010024.SAA05448@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Bill Paul cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for testers for new ThunderLAN driver Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <199808311728.NAA04332@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > - 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message