> > I still have got problems with the new 8139too NAPI driver. > > On my network client, AMD K6-2 333MHz with 2.4.23 and > 8139too NAPI, I no longer get "too much work at interrupt", > but ifconfig still reports 1% (!) packet drops while cat'ing > a file from nfs to /dev/null (help me: how do I better > measure network performance?). From time to time I see a "nfs > server not responding" in the syslog. Network performance is > really slow, ~16 MBit/s while mii-tool says 100-TX-FD. > > Corresponding server is a non-8139 Athlon XP 2000+ with > 100MBit, in between a 100MBit switch. Server networking seems > ok (tested from Windows, but with smb, not nfs). > > Please, could anybody guess what my problem is? > > I had problems with NFS+8139 on an a similar machine, it was fixed > by using PIO instead of MMIO. The help text mentions something about > memory inconsistencies IIRC. The machine was the server, though. > I tried PIO, but with no effect. I'm still really clueless... Any other tips are wellcome! Thanks, Matthias - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
