More PCI than a Starfire requirement.
And there are plenty of ia32 platforms that benefit from MWI, too.
Often its server mobos that support MWI, but some cheaper ones do too.
> And, in general, are there any other tricks one can do to speed up the PCI
> transactions on non-x86 platforms? I'm still getting occasional overruns
> on sparc64 (card receiving packets faster than it can push them over PCI),
> which is somewhat disturbing..
Dynamically tune your RX and TX DMA burst settings when you notice these
conditions... It is indeed possible to saturate PCI bus bandwidth.
Jeff
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