Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263672AbUDMSbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:31:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263662AbUDMSbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:31:51 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:32963 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263673AbUDMSbe (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:31:34 -0400 Message-ID: <407C31F4.9070800@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:31:16 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Egger CC: Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Netdev Subject: Re: [NET] net driver updates References: <4072CD01.6070408@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1406 Lines: 41 Daniel Egger wrote: > On 06.04.2004, at 17:30, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> * Francois work on r8169, epic100, sis190: PCI DMA, NAPI, other minor >> fixes and cleanups > > > r8169 seems to work though it is not even a tad bit faster > than plain 2.6.5. Francois is still trying to fix all the vendor-created bugs, so performance is a secondary consideration. RTL8169 is a nice chipset, though. Robert Ollsson had some nice pktgen numbers for it, IIRC. > Those cards are really driving me nuts. Between two r8169 cards, one > on Athlon with kernel 2.4.24, one on Athlon with 2.6.5 or 2.4.24, I > get 90Mbit/s in one direction and 39Mbit/s in the other using iperf and > TCP. With iperf and UDP they deliver 100Mbit/s resp. 230Mbit/s depending > on the direction. Crosschecking with my PowerBook (OS X) shows that I can > get 844Mbit/s (UDP) or 572Mbit/s (TCP) to one host and 844Mbit/s (UDP) but > only 88Mbit/s (TCP) to the other. > > The environment is switched and changing cables and/or ports doesn't > improve the results. > > Ideas? (Yeah, I'll get Intel NICs RSN...) Yeah -- I plan to kill r8169, and use 8139cp.c to drive it instead :) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/