netdev - Re: r8169: slow samba performance

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Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:34:50 -0600 (MDT)
From:	john@...eSkyTours.com
To:	Bruce Cole <bacole@...il.com>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169: slow samba performance


On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Bruce Cole wrote:

> Shane wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:39:47AM -0700, Bruce Cole wrote:
>> 
>>> Shane, join the crowd :)  Try the fix I just re-posted over here:
>>> 
>> 
>> Bruce, gigabit speeds thanks for the pointer.  This fix
>> works well for me though I just added the three or so lines
>> in the elseif statement as it rejected with the
>> r8169-20070818.  I suppose I could've merged the whole
>> thing and if you need that tested, let me know but this is
>> looking good.
>> 
> Glad it works for you.  I'm not the maintainer, and also don't have adequate 
> specs from Realtek to definitively explain why the NPQ bit apparently needs 
> to be re-enabled when some but not all of the TX FIFO is dequeued.  It is 
> documented as if it isn't cleared until the FIFO is empty.  So I assume an 
> official patch will have to wait until Francois is back.


I have had abysmal performance trying to remotely run X apps via ssh on a
computer with a RTL8111 NIC.  Saw this message and decided to give this
patch a try --- success!  Much, much better.

Thanks,

John
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