> > I can confirm that masa's binary fixes the bug.
> The
> > interface would die out after an hour of
> concurrent
> > file transfers. After changing the driver, it run
> > through the night finishing 130 GB of transfers
> each
> > way.  
> 
> Hi,
> Thank you very much for testing.
>  
>  Unfortunately, cifs read througput with this binary
>  is limited to ~12 MB/sec or half of what I can get
>  through the original rge driver (or anIntel desktop
>  1000MT PCI card) on the same machine and the same
>  filesystem. 
>  
> It is possible that my CPU is running out of steam.
>  I
>  am running snv_126 on a Supermicro Atom 330
>  motherboard. With either lan controllers, one CPU
>  thread is maxed out. Masa, is your binary compiled
>  with debug assertions or anything else that would
>  limit performance?
> 
> I think we unfortunately hit  bug id 6888015, that
>  pcie variants of
> ealtek 8168/8111 series are very slow in
> transmitting. It is caused
> by the workaround for the hang issue. :-(   I made a
> workaround for
> the slow down issue, but I have not  find a sponsor
> to put back the fix
> into opensolaris. 
> I'll prepare the binary of rge against the slow down
> issue soon.

I prepared a new rge for the slow down issue, bug-id 6888015.
Please try it if you like.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/rge.6888015-3.tar.gz

Fortunately I got a sponsor for 6888015. I just started the
process to integrate the fix into opensolaris. It have passed
most of the tests in nicdrv test suites. 

regards,
-masa
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