Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:22:10 -0500

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:04:56PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Wayne Whitney <whitney@math.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:05:10 -0800
>
> So does anyone have any comments on the stability and performance of
> these cards/drivers?
>
> As I said in a previous email the natsemi chips don't perform
> too well.

That's my fault. The version of the driver in the kernel atm sucks in
performance; I'll try to spend the day needed on the driver this week
and it should get up to ~800mbit from the current mess. Getting NAPI
in the kernel would help... ;-)

-ben

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