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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:56:18 +1000 From: Philip Craig <philipc@...pgear.com> To: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, isely@...ox.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] r8169: more alignment for the 0x8168 Francois Romieu wrote: > Philip Craig <philipc@...pgear.com> : > [...] >> This patch caused a drop in throughput from 178 Mbits/sec to 135 Mbits/sec >> on an Intel XScale IXP465. > > Which distribution of packet sizes ? Just using iperf with the default options, MTU 1500, forwarding between 2 PCs with the board in the middle. >> It seems like there is some confusion about what the align parameter >> here means. It was originally an offset from an aligned address so that >> the IP header aligned, and this patch changes it to the alignment of the >> ethernet header. But align is still set to NET_IP_ALIGN for some chips. > > Yes, I should have distinguished both in the first place. > > Can you describe which chipset from realtek the board is using (lspci -vxx) ? # lspci -vxx 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8169 (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8169 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26 I/O ports at 1000 [size=256] Memory at 48061000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at 48000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 00: ec 10 69 81 57 01 b0 02 10 00 00 02 08 00 00 00 10: 01 10 00 00 00 10 06 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 10 69 81 30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1a 01 20 40 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8169 (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8169 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26 I/O ports at 1400 [size=256] Memory at 48061100 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at 48020000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 00: ec 10 69 81 57 01 b0 02 10 00 00 02 08 00 00 00 10: 01 14 00 00 00 11 06 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 10 69 81 30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1a 01 20 40 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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