Re: nfe driver 6.2 stable

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:30:20PM +0100, Chris wrote:
On 27/09/2007, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:44:09PM +0100, Chris wrote:

[...]

> The card is more stable when using nve driver no crashes still but the
> performance is around the same maxing out at around 200mbit. I was
> expecting nearer 400-500mbit.
>
> e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
>

There had been issues nfe(4) with 88E1116/88E1149 PHYs but your issue
seems to be different one. How about manually set media configuration?
For example, "ifconfig nfe0 media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"


[...]


I typod I meant to say nve was unstable and nfe has been rock solid so
great work with the driver. I enabled mpsafe now and still no
problems and its gave me a little more performance as well, a shame my
nic has no hardware features (unusual for a gigabit nic) but overall
glad its at least stable.


How did you check network performance?
Maxing out at around 200Mbps seems weird. Personally, I had never seen
GigE hardwares that saturate at 200Mbps. One of causes I can think of
is speed/duplex mismatches with link partner. Manually setting
speed/duplex might fix your performance issue, I guess.

--
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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