netdev - Re: reproducible kernel freeze using r8169 in Linux 3.0

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:33:54 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Matt Ginzton <matt@...zton.net>
Cc:	nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reproducible kernel freeze using r8169 in Linux 3.0

Matt Ginzton <matt@...zton.net> :
[...]
> Just to follow up on this old thread:

Thanks.

[...]
> 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.

-- 
Ueimor
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