From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Bad tg3 performance on S10 netbook Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:47:06 -0800 Message-ID: <496E797A.3070707@candelatech.com> References: <496E64BB.7080709@candelatech.com> <1231975027.8964.136.camel@HP1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: NetDev To: Michael Chan Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:41448 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757092AbZANXrJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:47:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1231975027.8964.136.camel@HP1> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com