Bug#644906: [squeeze] e1000e: upstream workaround for packet drop on 82579LM at 100Mbps

[Terry Burton <tez@terryburton.co.uk>]

On 11 March 2012 21:06, Holger Jeromin <jeromin@hitnet.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder schrieb am 11.03.2012 20:36:
>> Holger Jeromin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The patch ("e1000e: workaround for packet drop on 82579 at 100Mbps")
>>>> hit mainline in v3.1-rc4.  Are squeeze 2.6.32.y kernels affected?
>>>
>>> As you can see in my smokeping there is still a paket loss in my
>>> internal network:
>>> http://www.katur.de/smokeping/smokeping.cgi?target=Local.Telefon
>>> It would be nice, if you can fix the problem with a new kernel for
>>> squeeze, since the paket loss is not nice for VoIP-Calls :-)
>>
>> Please test the attached patch, following instructions from [1].
>
>
> ping -f 192.168.0.3
> PING 192.168.0.3 (192.168.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
> --- 192.168.0.3 ping statistics ---
> 21499 packets transmitted, 21498 received, 0% packet loss, time 14026ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.207/0.616/17.595/0.240 ms, pipe 2, ipg/ewma
> 0.652/0.623 ms
>
> The kernel from squeeze had around 2% packet loss...
>
> The fix works very nice here. Thanks. I will keep the kernel until a new
> security update in stable forces me to update.

Likewise, patch tested successfully.


Thanks,

Terry