Re: RTL8111 PCI Express Gigabit driver r8169 produces slow file transfers
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Date: 2007-09-27 17:25:05
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Achim Frase [off-list ref] :
[...] but I hope you could help me.
Yes. Please try any of: - current 2.6.23-git - 2.6.23-rc8 + patch below
diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
index b85ab4a..c921ec3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c@@ -1228,7 +1228,10 @@ static void rtl8169_hw_phy_config(struct net_device *dev) return; } - /* phy config for RTL8169s mac_version C chip */ + if ((tp->mac_version != RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_02) && + (tp->mac_version != RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_03)) + return; + mdio_write(ioaddr, 31, 0x0001); //w 31 2 0 1 mdio_write(ioaddr, 21, 0x1000); //w 21 15 0 1000 mdio_write(ioaddr, 24, 0x65c7); //w 24 15 0 65c7
@@ -2567,6 +2570,15 @@ static void rtl8169_tx_interrupt(struct net_device *dev, (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) { netif_wake_queue(dev); } + /* + * 8168 hack: TxPoll requests are lost when the Tx packets are + * too close. Let's kick an extra TxPoll request when a burst + * of start_xmit activity is detected (if it is not detected, + * it is slow enough). -- FR + */ + smp_rmb(); + if (tp->cur_tx != dirty_tx) + RTL_W8(TxPoll, NPQ); } }
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Ueimor