Outgoing speed problems in -CURRENT (was: Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000)

2005-05-13 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Thu, May 12, 2005 3:27 am, Marian Durkovic said: >> Seems like i am getting half the performance when sending to the fbsd >> box. Also, enabling jumbo frames does not help, and sometimes even >> yields slightly slower results. > > Yes, that's exactly the problem my patch is addressing - for lar

Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Thu, May 12, 2005 3:27 am, Marian Durkovic said: > Hi, > > > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:38:48PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> Any luck submitting the patch for this? >> > > Yes, it's kern/80932 Good stuff, ill test it when i get a chance. > >> I looked at Intels website, and the latest drive

Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000

2005-05-12 Thread Marian Durkovic
Hi, On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:38:48PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Any luck submitting the patch for this? Yes, it's kern/80932 > I looked at Intels website, and the latest drive for FreeBSD 4.7 is 1.7.35. 1.7.41 could be found at: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_re

Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000

2005-05-11 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Wed, May 11, 2005 5:24 pm, Mike Jakubik said: > Any luck submitting the patch for this? I looked at Intels website, and > the latest drive for FreeBSD 4.7 is 1.7.35. Which is what is also used on > -CURRENT now. They also state "Development is no longer taking place on > this driver. For the la

Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000

2005-05-11 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Sat, May 7, 2005 12:37 am, Kris Kennaway said: > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:59:50AM +0200, Marian Durkovic wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> seems we've found the problem. The performance degradation was >> happening it the TX path, due to insufficient setting of TX packet >> buffer FIFO on the ch

Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000

2005-05-07 Thread Mike Jakubik
On Sat, May 7, 2005 5:35 am, Marian Durkovic said: >>> To achieve wirespeed performance, the TX FIFO must be large enough to >>> accomodate 2 jumbo packets (not just 1 as the driver was assuming). >>> There was also a typo in the driver, causing the PBA tuning on most >>> cards to be non-functiona

Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000

2005-05-07 Thread Marian Durkovic
> > To achieve wirespeed performance, the TX FIFO must be large enough to > > accomodate 2 jumbo packets (not just 1 as the driver was assuming). > > There was also a typo in the driver, causing the PBA tuning on most > > cards to be non-functional. > > > > Please be sure to use em driver vers

Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000

2005-05-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:59:50AM +0200, Marian Durkovic wrote: > Hi all, > > > seems we've found the problem. The performance degradation was happening > it the TX path, due to insufficient setting of TX packet buffer FIFO on the > chip. > > To achieve wirespeed performance, the TX FIFO mu