From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Mason Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi and RealTek 8169 - very slow Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:52:15 -0600 Message-ID: <200411301352.15927.jdmason@us.ibm.com> References: <41A09541.5040405@phekda.gotadsl.co.uk> <20041122213008.GA9618@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <41A4E2C9.4070502@phekda.gotadsl.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Francois Romieu , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Richard Dawe In-Reply-To: <41A4E2C9.4070502@phekda.gotadsl.co.uk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 24 November 2004 01:36 pm, Richard Dawe wrote: > Hello. > > I don't know if it will help, but FreeBSD's re driver source code is here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c?only_with_tag= >HEAD > > Have you ever looked at that? It has some interesting comments about the > maximum Jumbo packet length and vendor-specific registers in the 8110. > > Thanks, bye, Rich =] I've experimented with the value of EarlyTxThld, and have been able to get it to work upto a MTU of 8000. I still need to do some more experimentation to find the optimal value (and see if modifying any other registers will help this). -- Jon Mason jdmason@us.ibm.com