Darn - it was suggested that a performance issue I'm having with a Sil 3124 based pci-x esata card and a port multiplier might be helped with pre-emption enabled - just not for Alpha :)
I know that the DS20 often has PCI issues - anyone know of what may cause issues with a 64bit PCI-X card on the machine?
Any recommended placements for such thing?I have 3 64 bit cards in the machine, a VIA gig ethernet, a combo scsi/ethernet card and the 3124-2 based eSata card ....
Thanks, ...tom Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:19:29AM -0400, Tom Evans wrote:Are there patches available for Alpha in the case that it does not?Not sure. I do not see a PREEMPT option in the config file on my alpha running Etch though, so I would suspect that it does not support preempt at this time. As for patches I have no idea. Looking at the kernel source I see preempt included only by: i386 mips parisc powerpc ppc x86_64 -- Len Sorensen