Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

[Timo Jantunen]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So there's a final -rc out there, and right now my plan is to make this 
> series really short, and release 2.6.23 in a few days. So please do give 
> it a last good testing, and holler about any issues you find!

The r8169 nic performance regression is still there.

2.6.22: send 82MB/s, receive 86MB/s
2.6.23-rc9: send 32MB/s, receive 98MB/s

I debugged this with Francois Romieu but haven't heard from him since 
testing his fixes.

I attached a patch from him which is a partial revert of commit 
6dccd16b7c2703e8bbf8bca62b5cf248332afbe2.

With this patch I get 93MB send and 97MB receive and I have been running it 
for a week but I don't know if the patch has any downsides on other 
systems.


//T

> 			Linus