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| author | Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> | 2013-03-06 09:02:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> | 2013-03-27 23:25:36 -0700 |
| commit | 772d05c51c4f4896c120ad418b1e91144a2ac813 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c67bd6877d7c121030d34d1de86832c807d2d53 /drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.h | |
| parent | bb034512da74dce901f738f7c7cea332ff971608 (diff) | |
e1000e: slow performance between two 82579 connected via 10Mbit hub
Two 82579 LOMs connected via a 10Mb hub experience extraordinarily low
performance. This is because 82579 is excessively aggressive on transmit
at 10Mb half-duplex and will not provide sufficient time for the link
partner to transmit. When the link partner is also 82579, the result is a
lot of collisions (and corresponding re-transmits) that cause the poor
performance. To work-around this issue, significantly increase the IPG in
the MAC to allow enough gap for the link partner to transmit and reduce the
Rx latency in the analog PHY to 0 to reduce the number of collisions.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.h index 8bf4655c2e17..00ba6c912cc8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.h @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ #define I82579_MSE_THRESHOLD 0x084F /* 82579 Mean Square Error Threshold */ #define I82577_MSE_THRESHOLD 0x0887 /* 82577 Mean Square Error Threshold */ #define I82579_MSE_LINK_DOWN 0x2411 /* MSE count before dropping link */ +#define I82579_RX_CONFIG 0x3412 /* Receive configuration */ #define I82579_EEE_PCS_STATUS 0x182D /* IEEE MMD Register 3.1 >> 8 */ #define I82579_EEE_CAPABILITY 0x0410 /* IEEE MMD Register 3.20 */ #define I82579_EEE_ADVERTISEMENT 0x040E /* IEEE MMD Register 7.60 */ |