Re: 2.6.12.3 network slowdown?

From: Bernd Schubert
Date: Wed Jul 27 2005 - 08:01:53 EST


On Wednesday 27 July 2005 12:30, Mihai Rusu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:44:43AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> > I just recently compiled the 2.6.12.3 kernel for my x86_64 machine
> > (Asus A8V motherboard); was previously running a SuSE-compiled 2.6.8
> > kernel (SuSE 9.2 distro). I'm now seeing extremely slow throughput on
> > the onboard Yukon (Marvell) ethernet interface, but only in certain
> > conditions. Going back to the 2.6.8 kernel shows no slowdown.
>
> You might try the other SysKonnect driver as 2.6.12 ships with 2
> different drivers for this family of NICs.
>

No, AFAIK the rewritten driver is only in 2.6.13-rc or 2.6.12-mm (also already
in previous -mm kernel versions).

Bernd

--
Bernd Schubert
Physikalisch Chemisches Institut / Theoretische Chemie
Universität Heidelberg
INF 229
69120 Heidelberg
e-mail: bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/