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Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0708271631330.871@katana>
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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