It was reported that re-introducing ASPM, in combination with RX interrupt coalescing, results in significantly increased packet latency, see [0]. Disabling ASPM or RX interrupt coalescing fixes the issue. Therefore change the driver's default to disable RX interrupt coalescing. Users still have the option to enable RX coalescing via ethtool.
[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925496 Fixes: a99790bf5c7f ("r8169: Reinstate ASPM Support") Reported-by: Mike Crowe <m...@mcrowe.com> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c index c9ee1c8eb..8a8a4f70d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c @@ -5460,7 +5460,7 @@ static void rtl_hw_start_8168(struct rtl8169_private *tp) tp->cp_cmd |= PktCntrDisable | INTT_1; RTL_W16(tp, CPlusCmd, tp->cp_cmd); - RTL_W16(tp, IntrMitigate, 0x5151); + RTL_W16(tp, IntrMitigate, 0x5100); /* Work around for RxFIFO overflow. */ if (tp->mac_version == RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_11) { -- 2.21.0
