Realtek 8139 with rl(4) driver -> Poor performance

[Gabriel Lavoie]

Hum. I tried transfering a lot of data tonight via Samba (30GB). It seems
that after some time the driver becomes again unstable and the networking
performance drops really low. I could hardly SSH to this box after it
happened.

Gabriel

2008/11/16 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:03:15PM -0500, Gabriel Lavoie wrote:
>  > All right! rl(4) from HEAD solved my problem! I now get a solid 11.2
> MB/sec
>  > file transfer, on both directions. I found about this problem because my
>  > Samba share was too slow. The Samba problem is solved.
>  >
>
> Glad to hear that. :-)
>
>  > Thanks!
>  >
>  > 2008/11/16 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>
>  >
>  > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:26:34PM -0800, bf wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > > There was a bus_dma(9) bug in rl(4) and it was fixed in HEAD.
>  > >  > > How about rl(4) in HEAD? I guess it would build with minor
>  > >  > > modification.
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > --
>  > >  > > Regards,
>  > >  > > Pyun YongHyeon
>  > >  >
>  > >  > I meant to ask about this: I think you are referring to r184240-3
>  > > committed
>  > >  > around Oct. 25, partly in response to PR kern/128143, right?  Is
> there
>  > > any
>  > >
>  > > Yes.
>  > >
>  > >  > plan to merge these changes to RELENG_7, either before or after the
>  > >  > release of 7.1?
>  > >  >
>  > >
>  > > I'll MFC the change after 7.1-RELEASE.
>  > > Did the change set r184240 fix your issue?
>  > >
>  > > --
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pyun YongHyeon
>



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