On 8/19/07, Bruce Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it seems that when the driver tries to queue a packet while the > controller is busy processing the queue, the newly queued packet does > not get noticed by the controller (until further packet activity occurs). > Perhaps there is a problem with the memory barriers when adding to the > TX queue, but I'm a newbie on linux kernel memory barriers.
One thing I noticed a while ago (march) is that floodpinging (ping -f) the r8169 host from an external system also increases performance without changing code. My original post about the problem: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117207362010321&w=2 I ended up (until now perhaps :-) with disabling the onboard nic and adding an e1000 card. Kind regards, Dirk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
