Re: xircom_cb problems

[Ion Badulescu]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Tom Sightler wrote:

> Transferring files between the eepro100 machine running 2.4.2-ac11 and my 
> laptop produced a result of 2.24MB/s for sending and 2.13MB/s recieving the 
> file.
> 
> Transfering files between the Alteon Gigabit machine running 2.2.19 and my 
> laptop resulted in the dismal numbers of 249KB/s sending and 185KB/s recieving, 
> close to the numbers you quoted above, but actually slightly worse.
> 
> I'm not sure what would explain the 2.2.19 1GB conencted box being 10x slower 
> than the 2.4.2-ac11 100MB machine.

Both of these are slow, actually. I'm getting 7.5-8MB/s when receiving 
from a 100Mbit box (tulip or starfire, doesn't seem to matter). 
Transmitting is still slow for me, but that is most likely a different 
problem -- and I'm looking into it.

Moreover, I'm getting 9+MB/s in both directions when using the other 
driver (xircom_tulip_cb), patched to do half-duplex only. So the card can 
definitely transfer at network speeds.

> I'll apply your patch with the change to MII handling and rerun some simple 
> file transfers and report the results soon.

Looking forward to seeing them...

Thanks,
Ion

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