Subject: Re: Bad tg3 performance on S10 netbook

From: "Michael Chan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:17:07 -0800

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:18 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> We tried turning on adaptive-rx (it is off by default), and again,
> no improvement.

tg3 does not support adaptive-rx.  It will be quietly ignored by the
driver.  ethtool -c will show that it is always off after you try to
turn it on.