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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Matt Ginzton <matt@ginzton.net>
Cc: nic_swsd@realtek.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reproducible kernel freeze using r8169 in Linux 3.0
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:33:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120103223354.GC8563@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DED183BB-B51D-4739-99B3-7E0B71897159@ginzton.net>

Matt Ginzton <matt@ginzton.net> :
[...]
> Just to follow up on this old thread:

Thanks.

[...]
> I do note that TX performance as measured by pktgen is lower than r8168 --
> with r8169 in 3.2-rc7 I see something like 455MB/sec and with r8168, IIRC,
> the number was closer to 800MB/sec. This may be a very artificial statistic,
> and isn't something I happen to care about and I'm certainly not going to
> use r8168 because of it, but it may be worth looking into?

Expect a "remove everything from irq context" patch this week. It should
turn things simpler in the (apparently not so-) fast paths.

-- 
Ueimor

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-03 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <63CE35CA-7DD6-41EC-A745-6BA776D8C5E3@ginzton.net>
2011-12-18  8:32 ` reproducible kernel freeze using r8169 in Linux 3.0 Francois Romieu
2011-12-18  9:40   ` Matt Ginzton
2012-01-02  2:03   ` Matt Ginzton
2012-01-03 22:33     ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2012-01-19 14:07       ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-18  3:31 Matt Ginzton

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