Hi all!
I would like to kindly ask your help to understand this subject, since my
familiarity with the network stack is limited. I'm still
trying to find a solution for the latency problems with Realtek cards I
reported earlier.
Why does the GSO have to be forced on the socket level
if drivers f
Hi!
First of all: Thank you everyone for the input.
Here is some more info about my NIC. (Using the latest ethtool)
# ethtool -i eth0 ; ifconfig eth0
driver: r8169
version:
firmware-version: rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: :02:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
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On 16.08.2019 15:59, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On 8/16/19 2:35 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> ..snip..
>> I also see this relevant commit : I have no idea why SG would have any
>> relation with TSO.
>>
>> commit a7eb6a4f2560d5ae64bfac98d79d11378ca2de6c
>> Author: Holger Hoffstätte
>> Date: Fri Aug
On 8/16/19 2:35 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
..snip..
I also see this relevant commit : I have no idea why SG would have any relation
with TSO.
commit a7eb6a4f2560d5ae64bfac98d79d11378ca2de6c
Author: Holger Hoffstätte
Date: Fri Aug 9 00:02:40 2019 +0200
r8169: fix performance issue on RTL81
On 8/16/19 2:09 PM, Juliana Rodrigueiro wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> During migration from kernel 3.14 to 4.19, we noticed a regression on the
> network performance. Under the exact same circumstances, the standard
> deviation of the latency is more than double than before on the Realtek
> RTL811
