From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] rtl8169 gbe slow
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:22:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49010da5-9c4e-4399-8fbe-e4dae715063f@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160218113017.GB2756@polynum.com>
the 8169 driver is pretty fast. I've measured it at more than 500mbps.
it sounds like something else is misbehaving. what does
/dev/irqstat say. I bet something is stuck.
- erik
On Feb 18, 2016 3:30 AM, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have finally managed to install plan9 on my new workstation.
>
> By putting back the keyboard on the PS2 connector, I have solved some
> unfelicities (with the USB->legacy emulation, the keyboard switched
> every other typing to UPPERCASE...).
>
> The mouse, still USB connected and hence "emulated" by the BIOS,
> does not react very gracefully but I will see if I can play with
> the acceleration and the resolution to have a better terminal. (Or
> if I manage to find a long enough cable to have a COM slot back since
> there is the bare connector on the motherboard; in this case I will go
> back to a com mouse and will be able to probe USB for other
> devices---external disks.)
>
> One thing is inconvenient: I have a rtl8169 gbe pci-e ether card, but
> when testing the compilation of kerTeX (it has been fixed: it works for
> the last release; rio to come for METAFONT), the throughput with hget is
> abysmal: 30kB/s... The disk is not a fault, reacting well enough (I have
> plenty of RAM and the blocks cache for fossil is set to 3000---it could
> be obviously higher).
>
> Setting the mtu to jumbo packet does not help.
>
> Is there something to tune or is it simply that the chip is not well
> supported?
>
> TIA
> --
> Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
> http://www.kergis.com/
> http://www.arts-po.fr/
> Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-18 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-18 11:30 tlaronde
2016-02-18 13:22 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2016-02-18 23:41 ` arisawa
2016-02-19 1:56 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-19 15:17 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-19 12:52 ` tlaronde
2016-02-19 15:13 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-19 17:11 ` tlaronde
2016-02-20 10:32 ` tlaronde
2016-02-20 11:23 ` Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen
2016-02-20 12:11 ` tlaronde
2016-02-20 13:31 ` hiro
2016-02-20 14:01 ` tlaronde
2016-02-20 14:06 ` lucio
2016-02-20 14:22 ` tlaronde
2016-02-20 17:20 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-20 17:45 ` tlaronde
2016-02-20 19:26 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-20 19:41 ` Mark van Atten
2016-02-20 20:18 ` tlaronde
2016-02-20 20:18 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 9:14 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 9:40 ` Mark van Atten
2016-02-22 10:10 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 10:15 ` lucio
2016-02-22 11:05 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 11:06 ` Richard Miller
2016-02-22 11:40 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 12:00 ` lucio
2016-02-22 12:16 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 12:17 ` Richard Miller
2016-02-22 12:29 ` Mark van Atten
2016-02-22 12:47 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 12:52 ` Mark van Atten
2016-02-22 13:02 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 13:20 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-22 15:05 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 15:19 ` lucio
2016-02-22 15:34 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 15:43 ` lucio
2016-02-22 13:13 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 13:29 ` lucio
2016-02-22 13:39 ` David du Colombier
2016-02-22 14:39 ` rod
2016-02-22 15:12 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 15:21 ` stanley lieber
2016-02-22 15:27 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 15:45 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-22 15:46 ` David du Colombier
2016-02-22 16:28 ` Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen
2016-02-22 16:40 ` lucio
2016-02-22 16:57 ` Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen
2016-02-22 17:03 ` [9fans] FP instructions in note handlers (Was: rtl8169 gbe slow) lucio
2016-02-23 10:36 ` hiro
2016-02-22 16:45 ` [9fans] rtl8169 gbe slow rod
2016-02-22 16:57 ` tlaronde
2016-02-22 17:13 ` David du Colombier
2016-02-22 17:57 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-23 10:34 ` hiro
2016-02-23 12:24 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-23 12:30 ` hiro
2016-02-23 12:37 ` hiro
2016-02-23 12:40 ` hiro
2016-02-23 12:48 ` hiro
2016-02-23 15:16 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-23 17:27 ` hiro
2016-02-23 15:17 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-23 17:24 ` hiro
2016-02-23 17:38 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-23 17:50 ` hiro
2016-02-23 18:16 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-23 18:38 ` hiro
2016-02-23 19:19 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-23 19:35 ` hiro
2016-02-23 20:21 ` tlaronde
2016-02-23 17:54 ` Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen
2016-02-23 18:08 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-23 17:48 ` lucio
2016-02-23 17:52 ` hiro
2016-02-23 15:18 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-22 15:44 ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-20 19:07 ` tlaronde
2016-02-20 19:21 ` erik quanstrom
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