Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935411AbYBGWhG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:37:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760159AbYBGWgy (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:36:54 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:33237 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756783AbYBGWgx (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:36:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:37:09 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "Kok, Auke" Cc: kernel list , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, john.ronciak@intel.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 1sec latency problem Message-ID: <20080207223709.GC6096@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080207141718.GA2030@elf.ucw.cz> <47AB4B2E.1030801@intel.com> <20080207222411.GA1917@elf.ucw.cz> <47AB86F0.9060601@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47AB86F0.9060601@intel.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1756 Lines: 41 On Thu 2008-02-07 14:32:16, Kok, Auke wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > >>> I have the famous e1000 latency problems: > >>> > >>> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=68 ttl=56 time=351.9 ms > >>> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=69 ttl=56 time=209.2 ms > >>> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=70 ttl=56 time=1004.1 ms > >>> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=71 ttl=56 time=308.9 ms > >>> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=72 ttl=56 time=305.4 ms > >>> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=73 ttl=56 time=9.8 ms > >>> 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=74 ttl=56 time=3.7 ms > >>> > >>> ...and they are still there in 2.6.25-git0. I had ethernet EEPROM > >>> checksum problems, which I fixed by the update, but problems are not > >>> gone. > >> pavel, start using "e1000e" instead - this driver replaces e1000 for all the > >> pci-express devices and has the infamous L1 ASPM disable patch to > >> fix this issue. > > > > Ok, e1000e seems to work for me. > > > > In another email, you asked for lspci -vvvv of failing e1000 > > case. Should I still provide it? > > well, if you do it you should see that L1 ASPM is now disabled (with e1000e) > whereas with e1000 it is still enabled. That's the fix that you need... Is there easy way to push that fix to e1000, too? Or print "use e1000e instead" and refuse to load? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/