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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 2010 22:41:12 +0100
From:      Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
To:        Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Abysmal re(4) performance under 8.1-STABLE (mid-August)
Message-ID:  <20101108214112.GY85693@acme.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <20101107231020.GB1279@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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On Sun, 07.11.2010 at 15:10:20 -0800, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:24:21PM +0100, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote:
> > On Sat, 06.11.2010 at 23:19:33 -0700, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Ulrich Sp??rlein <uqs@spoerlein.net> wrote:
> > > > Hello Pyun,
> > > >
> > > > On this new server, I cannot get more than ~280kByte/s up/downstream out of
> > > > re(4) without any tweaking.
> > > >
> > > > re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> > > > ?? ?? ?? ??options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
> > > > ?? ?? ?? ??ether 00:21:85:63:74:34
> > > > ?? ?? ?? ??inet6 fe80::221:85ff:fe63:7434%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> > > > ?? ?? ?? ??inet 46.4.12.147 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 46.4.12.191
> > > > ?? ?? ?? ??nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> > > > ?? ?? ?? ??media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <half-duplex>)
> > > > ?? ?? ?? ??status: active
> > > >
> > > 
> > > It seems the link was resolved to half-duplex. Does link partner
> > > also agree on the resolved speed/duplex?
> > 
> > As this is a dedicated server in a colo hundreds of km away, I have no
> > means to check this easily. Especially I cannot change the setting from
> > auto-neg. Btw, linux will show a negotiated 100/full link via mii-tool.
> > 
> 
> I guess you can contact network administrator of the data center to
> check the switch configuration. IEEE 802.3 says if link parter use
> forced full-duplex media and you use auto media, the resolved
> duplex is half-duplex by definition. I think RealTek may have
> followed the standard. There is no reason to use manual media
> configuration unless your link partner is severely broken with
> auto-negotiation.
> 
> Due to silicon bug of RealTek PHYs, rgephy(4) always use
> auto-negotiation so manual media configuration is a kind of
> auto-negotiation with limited set of available media advertising.
> I don't know how Linux solve the silicon bug though. One of magic
> DSP fixups might fix the issue, the DSP fixups vendor released is
> not under BSD license and does not say more detailed information
> for the code.

Luckily the provider switch me to another switch that is set to
autoneg, instead of hardcoded to 100/full. re(4) now happily transfers
with reasonable speeds, ie. 11MByte/s.

Thanks!
Uli



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