vr speed issues

[David Nguyen]

Hi,

I'm not sure if I'm much help, I have the same chipset, VIA Rhine II on 
a 6.1-p10 and works fine on a production server

# pciconf -lv
vr0 at pci0:18:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x1421147b chip=0x30651106 rev=0x78 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
    device   = 'VT6102 Rhine II PCI Fast Ethernet Controller'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

The ping -s 1500 other.host works with no packet loss.

You chip id looks the same, but the revision looks slightly newer.

Cheers
David

Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
>> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>>> Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also did a little more digging and noticed that once I start 
>>>> pinging from one of these hosts using large packet sizes, I get 
>>>> about 50-60% packet loss (ie: ping -s 1500 other.vr0.host).  If I 
>>>> ping something with a decent card, I get about 30-50% packet loss.  
>>>> There's no packet loss with the default packet size.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else with some vr cards feel like checking this out?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've got a VIA Rhine III card that I can dig out and put in if the 
>>> data would be of any use/interest etc - FWIW I seem to recall being 
>>> able to get reasonably close to wire speed when I was using it.
>>>
>>
>> I plugged in the card today, and seem to get pretty reasonable 
>> performance (8-10MB/s for scp - see attached). The two boxes are 
>> plugged into a Linksys router via store made cat5 or cat6 cables. The 
>> second box has an Intel PRO 100 (fxp) adapter.
>
> Interesting.  I've had the vr hosts going through three different 
> switches, patch cables, the in-house cabling, and the issue remains 
> the same.  I'd love to just replace a cable and be done with it, but 
> that doesn't seem to be the issue.  I can also eliminate it by just 
> switching out cards...  so I don't really suspect I've got a whole 
> load of bad cables.
>
>> Removing the vr card and going back to fxp everywhere seems to 
>> provide better performance (e.g. get 9MB/s in the last test), but the 
>> vr performance is acceptable (maybe your router clashes with your 
>> card?).
>
> Mine borders on unusable.  The packet loss really slows down and 
> stalls TCP connections.
>
> I noticed you have a newer revision of the Via card:
>
> # pciconf -lv
> vr0 at pci0:9:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x14031186 chip=0x31061106 rev=0x86
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
>     device   = 'VT6105M/LOM Rhine III PCI Fast Ethernet Controller'
>     class    = network
>     subclass = ethernet
>
> This is what I'm dealing with:
>
> hostb6 at pci0:17:7:       class=0x060000 card=0x287e1106 chip=0x287e1106 
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
>     class    = bridge
>     subclass = HOST-PCI
> vr0 at pci0:18:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x80a71043 chip=0x30651106 
> rev=0x7c hdr=0x00    vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
>     device   = 'VT6102 Rhine II PCI Fast Ethernet Controller'
>     class    = network
>     subclass = ethernet
>
> Maybe I'll just round up as much info as I can at my next visit, grab 
> some tcpdumps of the loss from both ends and do a send-pr and hope for 
> the best.  I can get along with replacing the cards, but they seem to 
> be really common these days - basically any cheap system with a Via 
> chipset and onboard ethernet will be using some variation on this 
> controller.
>
> Charles
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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