From: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 8139 Driver Improvements
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:50:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E166ngq-0003pQ-00@localhost> (raw)
Hi,
I'd just like to say that the 8139 Ethernet driver in 2.4.15pre3 is
vastly improved over the driver included in the Linux ~2.4.8 timeframe. On my
486DX2/80 running 2.4.8, the card would have impresssive burst performance,
but buffer overruns would quickly drop the TCP throughput down to around
1KB/second with heavy latency. Adjusting the all the /proc tuning knobs would
do very little to improve performance, and I understandably blamed it on my
shoddy hardware. I had similar results in FreeBSD, although I didn't know my
way around enough to tune it terribly well.
I just upgraded the machines kernel to 2.4.15pre3 (to match my desktop). Now,
the same setup can push 440KB/sec without breaking a sweat, and this is just
a simple HTTP file transfer using the default /proc-tunable settings. So,
hats off to Jeff Garzik and anyone else who has hacked on that driver and/or
the TCP/IP stack.
-Ryan
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