Jon, 82579 is e1000e driver and not e1000. Getting to the issue, what is the motherboard? Are you running the latest BIOS?
-Tushar >-----Original Message----- >From: Jon Nordby [mailto:j...@sqhead.com] >Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 7:35 AM >To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [E1000-devel] Verifying that disabled K1 power state in Gigabit >is in effect > >Hi, > >we are experiencing some packet losses with the Intel 82579 (on a Compulab >Intense PC) when running in Gb mode, both when running 2.6.32 and 3.8. >Losses are typically 40 packets/minute when running UDP traffic at about >250Mbit/s. >Some investigation show that the chip going in and out of K1 power state >could cause this[1], but I checked the e1000 code, and it looks like that >the workaround of disabling when in Gigabit mode should be in place >already. > >Is there any way to verify that K1 power state is indeed disabled for my >particular setup? Reading out the registers etc? >Are there any other things that could explain the packet losses and be >done to fix them? > >Regards, >Jon Nordby > >1. http://communities.intel.com/thread/32022, >http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification- >updates/6-and-c200-chipset-specification-update.pdf, p 24. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
