On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:13:33PM -0800, Scott Feldman wrote:

Idea#3

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-net@freebsd.org/msg10826.html

Set TXDMAC to 0 in e1000_configure_tx.

Enabling 'DMA packet prefetching' gives me an impressive boost in performance.
Combined with your TX clean rework, I now get 1.03Mpps TX performance at 60B
packets.  Transmitting from both of the 82546 ports at the same time gives me
close to 2 Mpps.

The freebsd post hints that (some) e1000 hardware might be buggy w.r.t. this
prefetching though.

I'll play some more with the other ideas you suggested as well.

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--L


diff -ur e1000.orig/e1000_main.c e1000/e1000_main.c

--- e1000.orig/e1000_main.c	2004-12-04 11:43:12.000000000 +0100
+++ e1000/e1000_main.c	2004-12-05 15:40:49.284946897 +0100

@@ -879,6 +894,8 @@
 
 	E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, TCTL, tctl);
 
+	E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, TXDMAC, 0);
+
 	e1000_config_collision_dist(&adapter->hw);
 
 	/* Setup Transmit Descriptor Settings for eop descriptor */