Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-15 Thread David Madsen
Do you see a difference in the system load too, say a few lines of 'vmstat 1' ? This is running on a dual core machine which explains the 50/50 sys/idle in vmstat. with 8168 hack (patch #0002): writes: isis tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=test.fil bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-13 Thread David Madsen
I noticed a somewhat significant difference between patch #0002 and a busy wait loop with ndelay(10). Write performance was equivalent in both cases as should be the case. Read perfomance for me maxed out Do you have some (gross) figure for the write performance ? Write performance was

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-09 Thread David Madsen
Does acceptable mean that there is a noticeable difference when compared to the patch based on a busy-waiting loop ? I noticed a somewhat significant difference between patch #0002 and a busy wait loop with ndelay(10). Write performance was equivalent in both cases as should be the case. Read

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-09 Thread Francois Romieu
David Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Does acceptable mean that there is a noticeable difference when compared to the patch based on a busy-waiting loop ? I noticed a somewhat significant difference between patch #0002 and a busy wait loop with ndelay(10). Write performance was equivalent in

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-04 Thread john
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Francois Romieu wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] 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

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-04 Thread Francois Romieu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] 20070903-2.6.23-rc5-r8169-test.patch applied against 2.6.23-rc5 works fine. Performance is acceptable. Does acceptable mean that there is a noticeable difference when compared to the patch based on a busy-waiting loop ? Would you like me to *just*

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-04 Thread john
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Francois Romieu wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] 20070903-2.6.23-rc5-r8169-test.patch applied against 2.6.23-rc5 works fine. Performance is acceptable. Does acceptable mean that there is a noticeable difference when compared to the patch based on a

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-04 Thread Bruce Cole
Francois Romieu wrote: Does acceptable mean that there is a noticeable difference when compared to the patch based on a busy-waiting loop ? Would you like me to *just* try patches 1 2, to help narrow down anything? I expect patch #2 alone to be enough to enhance the performance. If

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-09-03 Thread Francois Romieu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] 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:

Re: r8169: slow samba performance

2007-08-27 Thread john
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Bruce Cole wrote: Shane wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:39:47AM -0700, Bruce Cole wrote: Shane, join the crowd :) Try the fix I just re-posted over here: Bruce, gigabit speeds thanks for the pointer. This fix works well for me though I just added the three or so

r8169: slow samba performance

2007-08-22 Thread Bruce Cole
Just upgraded a motherboard and it came with an onboard Realtek card which appears to use the r8169 driver. The machine is a samba server and when serving files to a local Linux or Windows client, I only get approx 40-60 kbps. Write performance is fine though, in the tens of mbps and scp, nfs,