Re: reproducible kernel freeze using r8169 in Linux 3.0

Matt Ginzton [off-list ref] :
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Just to follow up on this old thread:

Thanks.

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I do note that TX performance as measured by pktgen is lower than r8168 --
with r8169 in 3.2-rc7 I see something like 455MB/sec and with r8168, IIRC,
the number was closer to 800MB/sec. This may be a very artificial statistic,
and isn't something I happen to care about and I'm certainly not going to
use r8168 because of it, but it may be worth looking into?

Expect a "remove everything from irq context" patch this week. It should
turn things simpler in the (apparently not so-) fast paths.

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Ueimor