From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad tg3 performance on S10 netbook
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:47:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496E797A.3070707@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231975027.8964.136.camel@HP1>
Michael Chan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:18 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
>> We tried turning on adaptive-rx (it is off by default), and again,
>> no improvement.
>
> tg3 does not support adaptive-rx. It will be quietly ignored by the
> driver. ethtool -c will show that it is always off after you try to
> turn it on.
Ok. It seems that it was still something to do with the processor
idling or something like that. We booted with acpi=off and now the
system runs better (no rx-miss).
We'll move to a newer kernel soon..maybe that will work better.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 22:18 Bad tg3 performance on S10 netbook Ben Greear
2009-01-14 23:17 ` Michael Chan
2009-01-14 23:47 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-01-14 23:47 ` Matt Carlson
2009-01-15 0:07 ` Ben Greear
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