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From: Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.12.3 network slowdown?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:42:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E7E398.7000308@highlandsun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050727105506.78b82aaa@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:44:43 -0700
> Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com> wrote:
>> I just recently compiled the 2.6.12.3 kernel for my x86_64 machine
>> (Asus A8V motherboard); was previously running a SuSE-compiled 2.6.8
>> kernel (SuSE 9.2 distro). I'm now seeing extremely slow throughput on
>> the onboard Yukon (Marvell) ethernet interface, but only in certain
>> conditions. Going back to the 2.6.8 kernel shows no slowdown.

> There a couple of possibilities, one is driver differences. SUSE ships
> the SysKonnect vendor driver vs the older version in 2.6.12, and the
> TCP congestion and TSO code has changed since 2.6.8.

Thanks for that tip. The SuSE 2.6.8 kernel had driver version 7.04, the 
2.6.12.3 kernel had driver version 6.23. I just downloaded the current 
driver from www.syskonnect.de (8.23) and installed it and now things are 
much improved, getting around 6.8MB/sec throughput.

-- 
   -- Howard Chu
   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc
   OpenLDAP Core Team            http://www.openldap.org/project/

      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-27 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2005-07-27  8:44   ` 2.6.12.3 network slowdown? Howard Chu
2005-07-27 10:30     ` Mihai Rusu
2005-07-27 13:00       ` Bernd Schubert
2005-07-27 17:55     ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-07-27 19:42       ` Howard Chu [this message]

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