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Commit 772d05c5 authored by Bruce Allan's avatar Bruce Allan Committed by Jeff Kirsher
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e1000e: slow performance between two 82579 connected via 10Mbit hub



Two 82579 LOMs connected via a 10Mb hub experience extraordinarily low
performance.  This is because 82579 is excessively aggressive on transmit
at 10Mb half-duplex and will not provide sufficient time for the link
partner to transmit.  When the link partner is also 82579, the result is a
lot of collisions (and corresponding re-transmits) that cause the poor
performance. To work-around this issue, significantly increase the IPG in
the MAC to allow enough gap for the link partner to transmit and reduce the
Rx latency in the analog PHY to 0 to reduce the number of collisions.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
parent bb034512
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