From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: john@BlueSkyTours.com Subject: Re: r8169: slow samba performance Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:04:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: References: <46CC66D3.8030602@gmail.com> <20070822182116.GA5445@csy.ca> <46CC9290.3040501@gmail.com> <20070903210322.GB4444@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Bruce Cole , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from nat1.blueskytours.com ([12.96.192.180]:54074 "HELO volcano.blueskytours.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753316AbXIDUEO (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:04:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070903210322.GB4444@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Francois Romieu wrote: > john@BlueSkyTours.com : > [...] >> I have had abysmal performance trying to remotely run X apps via ssh on a >> computer with a RTL8111 NIC. Saw this message and decided to give this >> patch a try --- success! Much, much better. > > Can you give a try to: > > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20070903-2.6.23-rc5-r8169-test.patch > > or just patches #0001 + #0002 at: > > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.23-rc5/r8169-20070903/ 20070903-2.6.23-rc5-r8169-test.patch applied against 2.6.23-rc5 works fine. Performance is acceptable. Would you like me to *just* try patches 1 & 2, to help narrow down anything? Thanks, John