Re: very low performance of network card tg3 running x86_64 2.6.20

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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:35:42 +0200 (EET)
"Eero Volotinen" <eero.volotinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, I have somekind of nasty problem on sun fire x2100 server.
> 
> Performance it so poor that it is unusable for any kind of filetransfer,
> about 1/10 of speed is archieved.
> 
> for example transferring files from ftp.funet.fi/dev
> 
> lftp ftp.funet.fi:/dev> mget 1GBnull
> `1GBnull' at 3097136 (0%) 268.1K/s eta:65m [Receiving data]
> 
> and on other machine on same network:
> 
> ftp ftp.funet.fi:/dev> mget 1GBnull
> `1GBnull' at 28320240 (2%) 1.26M/s eta:13m [Receiving data]
> 
> I have tested this issue on two sun fire x2100 series, so I can think that
> issue
> is not failty network card, but this sounds like bug network driver on
> x86_64?
> How to resolve this?
> 
> card is :
> 
> eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95721) rev 4101 PHY(5750)] (PCI Express)
> 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet 00:e0:81:5e:4a:94
> eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[1] Split[0] WireSpeed[1]
> TSOcap[1]
> eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> 
> and kernel:
> Linux y 2.6.20-gentoo #3 Mon Feb 12 19:16:29 EET 2007 x86_64 AMD
> Opteron(tm) Processor 146 GNU/Linux
> 
> other network card works fine on machine and it has no performance issues.
> Problem also exists in older kernel .18
> 
> thanks for any help.

Are you sure you don't have a window scaling corrupting firewall?
Does the problem go away if you turn off window scaling?
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