On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:44:17PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > r8169 NICs on some platforms have abysmal speed when ASPM is enabled. > Same issue can be observed with older vendor drivers. > > The issue is however solved by the latest vendor driver. There's a new > mechanism, which disables r8169's internal ASPM when the NIC traffic has > more than 10 packets, and vice versa. Obviously this is a *rate*, not an absolute number. I think you mean something like "10 packets in 1000ms". > The possible reason for this is > likely because the buffer on the chip is too small for its ASPM exit > latency. > > Realtek confirmed that all their PCIe LAN NICs, r8106, r8168 and r8125 > use dynamic ASPM under Windows. So implement the same mechanism here to > resolve the issue. > > Also introduce a lock to prevent race on accessing config registers. Can you please include the bugzilla link where you attached lspci data? I think it's this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214307 > Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
