From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:13:24 +0100
> 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> Applied and queued up for -stable. Frankly, I think we were better off with ASPM disabled. But I know a lot of people find that unacceptable. This chip has some many quirks/warts when ASPM is enabled, look how long it took us to A) get ASPM enabled reasonably and B) discover this bug.
