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Commit baa70a5c authored by Frank Li's avatar Frank Li Committed by David S. Miller
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net: fec: enable pause frame to improve rx prefomance for 1G network



The limition of imx6 internal bus cause fec can't achieve 1G perfomance.
There will be many packages lost because FIFO over run.

This patch enable pause frame flow control.

Before this patch
iperf -s -i 1
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
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[  4] local 10.192.242.153 port 5001 connected with 10.192.242.94 port 49773
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]  0.0- 1.0 sec  6.35 MBytes  53.3 Mbits/sec
[  4]  1.0- 2.0 sec  3.39 MBytes  28.5 Mbits/sec
[  4]  2.0- 3.0 sec  2.63 MBytes  22.1 Mbits/sec
[  4]  3.0- 4.0 sec  1.10 MBytes  9.23 Mbits/sec

ifconfig
   RX packets:46195 errors:1859 dropped:1 overruns:1859 frame:1859

After this patch
iperf -s -i 1

[  4] local 10.192.242.153 port 5001 connected with 10.192.242.94 port 49757
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]  0.0- 1.0 sec  49.8 MBytes   418 Mbits/sec
[  4]  1.0- 2.0 sec  50.1 MBytes   420 Mbits/sec
[  4]  2.0- 3.0 sec  47.5 MBytes   399 Mbits/sec
[  4]  3.0- 4.0 sec  45.9 MBytes   385 Mbits/sec
[  4]  4.0- 5.0 sec  44.8 MBytes   376 Mbits/sec

ifconfig
   RX packets:2348454 errors:0 dropped:16 overruns:0 frame:0

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Li <Frank.Li@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFugang Duan <B38611@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8b5b6f54
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