On 28.01.2019 12:13, Peter Ceiley wrote: > Hi, > > I have been experiencing very poor network performance since Kernel > 4.19 and I'm confident it's related to the r8169 driver. > > I have no issue with kernel versions 4.18 and prior. I am experiencing > this issue in kernels 4.19 and 4.20 (currently running/testing with > 4.20.4 & 4.19.18). > > If someone could guide me in the right direction, I'm happy to help > troubleshoot this issue. Note that I have been keeping an eye on one > issue related to loading of the PHY driver, however, my symptoms > differ in that I still have a network connection. I have attempted to > reload the driver on a running system, but this does not improve the > situation. > > Using the proprietary r8168 driver returns my device to proper working order. > > lshw shows: > description: Ethernet interface > product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller > vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > physical id: 0 > bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 > logical name: enp3s0 > version: 0c > serial: > size: 1Gbit/s > capacity: 1Gbit/s > width: 64 bits > clock: 33MHz > capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list > ethernet physical tp aui bnc mii fibre 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd > 1000bt-fd autonegotiation > configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 > duplex=full firmware=rtl8168g-2_0.0.1 02/06/13 ip=192.168.1.25 > latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s > resources: irq:19 ioport:d000(size=256) > memory:f7b00000-f7b00fff memory:f2100000-f2103fff > > Kind Regards, > > Peter. > Hi Peter,
the description "poor network performance" is quite vague, therefore: - Can you provide any measurements? - iperf results before and after - statistics about dropped packets (rx and/or tx) - Do you use jumbo packets? Also help would be a "lspci -vv" output for the network card and the dmesg output line with the chip XID. Heiner
