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ervin.peters
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 Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject: realtek 8169 on board, poor udp TX performance in Gb-mode |
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I was wondering why some backup-tasks to a windows server took forever. It was incredible slow. Then I remembered a tool called netio and downloaded / emerged it. The result:
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ghobi (Gentoo) running as Server:
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P:\netio126\bin>win32-i386.exe -a3 -t ghobi
NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel
TCP connection established.
Packet size 1k bytes: 11536 KByte/s Tx, 11534 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 2k bytes: 11534 KByte/s Tx, 11526 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 4k bytes: 11336 KByte/s Tx, 11556 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 8k bytes: 11478 KByte/s Tx, 11526 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes: 11455 KByte/s Tx, 11559 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes: 11522 KByte/s Tx, 11520 KByte/s Rx.
Done.
P:\netio126\bin>win32-i386.exe -a3 -u ghobi
NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel
UDP connection established.
Packet size 1k bytes: 11362 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 10371 KByte/s (83%) Rx.
Packet size 2k bytes: 11205 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 33830 Byte/s (99%) Rx.
Packet size 4k bytes: 11329 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 12912 Byte/s (99%) Rx.
Packet size 8k bytes: 11535 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 0 Byte/s (100%) Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes: 11184 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 0 Byte/s (100%) Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes: 11559 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 0 Byte/s (100%) Rx.
Done.
P:\netio126\bin>win32-i386.exe -a3 -u ghobi
NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel
UDP connection established.
Packet size 1k bytes: 11293 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 11468 KByte/s (83%) Rx.
Packet size 2k bytes: 11099 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 38130 Byte/s (99%) Rx.
Packet size 4k bytes: 11389 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 15363 Byte/s (99%) Rx.
Packet size 8k bytes: 11133 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 0 Byte/s (100%) Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes: 11463 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 0 Byte/s (100%) Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes: 11389 KByte/s (0%) Tx, 0 Byte/s (100%) Rx.
Done.
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Don't think about that ist is not Gb-Speed, the Windows Server runs on 100Mbps.
The other way around, the windows machine acts as netio server:
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ghobi net-analyzer # netio -t balu
NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel
TCP connection established.
Packet size 1k bytes: 11509 KByte/s Tx, 11115 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 2k bytes: 11509 KByte/s Tx, 11105 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 4k bytes: 11509 KByte/s Tx, 11355 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 8k bytes: 11507 KByte/s Tx, 11339 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes: 11515 KByte/s Tx, 11361 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes: 11486 KByte/s Tx, 11390 KByte/s Rx.
Done.
ghobi net-analyzer # netio -u balu
NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel
UDP connection established.
Packet size 1k bytes: 11475 KByte/s (83%) Tx, 11336 KByte/s (0%) Rx.
Packet size 2k bytes: 34122 Byte/s (99%) Tx, 11241 KByte/s (0%) Rx.
Packet size 4k bytes: 17047 Byte/s (99%) Tx, 11387 KByte/s (0%) Rx.
Packet size 8k bytes: 0 Byte/s (100%) Tx, 11408 KByte/s (0%) Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes: 0 Byte/s (100%) Tx, 11512 KByte/s (0%) Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes: 0 Byte/s (100%) Tx, 11463 KByte/s (0%) Rx.
Done.
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Same result by testing to another Gentoo Box with a 100Mbps NIC.
After unplugging and replugging the wire the netgear Gb-Switch detected only 100Mbit, and then the performance was fine.
I enabled the TX/RX Pool configuration setting for the rt8169 driver, no changes in behaviour.
It seems to be a Driver-Problem.
Does someone now the problem, the solution or maybe some workarounds?
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hornet5
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Try to switch to realtek native driver: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads
Don't forget to get rid of in-kernel module.
In my case (r8168) it solved poor udp TX performance.
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MikeP
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Location: Germany
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| This seems to be fixed now, i upgraded to Kernel 2.6.23.9 and both UDP and TCP RX/TX performance is fine with both NICs in GBit mode (although a segment in between is still only 100MBit/s, but that shouldn't matter i guess. |
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