netdev - Re: r8169 tx batching(?) causing performance problems

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Message-Id: <20181003.093146.431165270358997515.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:31:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 tx batching(?) causing performance problems

Probably you are seeing some interrupt mitigation.

It seems there is a difference in how the interrupt mitigation is
programmed on for 8168 chips vs. others by default.  Most get
all zeros in the IntrMitigate register, whilst for 8168 chips
a value of 0x5151 is programmed.

You can play with ethtool to mess with the coalescing settings
to see if this is part of the problem.

I bet this might explain the behavior you see after including
even Heiner's TXCFG_AUTO_FIFO patch.