Am 18.02.2019 um 18:05 schrieb Jose Abreu: > On 2/18/2019 4:51 PM, Simon Huelck wrote: >> Hi, >> >> no im testing vanilla mainline kernel and against 4.14. where >> performance was ok. but turning off EEE via ethtool should have same >> results than removal of that patch. >> >> But, since it was mainlined recently , not long ago, i think this was >> tested ?? > The thing is that phy_init_eee() is called by stmmac and this > function does not take into account the broken modes if it's > called too early which will cause driver to enable LPI in MAC. > > And anyway, if you have lpi values in the ethtool stats then EEE > is being enabled by stmmac. > > Please try the change I suggested. > > Thanks, > Jose Miguel Abreu Hi, disabling EEE doesnt help ( did it via the entry in the .dtb / .dts ), the results are the same. I can confirm the LPI counters are zero or one only after the test..... C:\Users\Simon\Downloads\iperf-2.0.9-win64>iperf -c 10.10.11.1 -i1  -d ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size:  208 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 10.10.11.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size:  208 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [  4] local 10.10.11.100 port 56114 connected with 10.10.11.1 port 5001 [  5] local 10.10.11.100 port 5001 connected with 10.10.11.1 port 47866 [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth [  4]  0.0- 1.0 sec  20.1 MBytes   169 Mbits/sec [  5]  0.0- 1.0 sec  75.8 MBytes   635 Mbits/sec [  4]  1.0- 2.0 sec  18.1 MBytes   152 Mbits/sec [  5]  1.0- 2.0 sec  69.0 MBytes   579 Mbits/sec [  4]  2.0- 3.0 sec  15.6 MBytes   131 Mbits/sec [  5]  2.0- 3.0 sec  70.7 MBytes   593 Mbits/sec [  4]  3.0- 4.0 sec  15.9 MBytes   133 Mbits/sec [  5]  3.0- 4.0 sec  70.3 MBytes   590 Mbits/sec [  4]  4.0- 5.0 sec  16.4 MBytes   137 Mbits/sec [  5]  4.0- 5.0 sec  69.5 MBytes   583 Mbits/sec [  4]  5.0- 6.0 sec  16.5 MBytes   138 Mbits/sec [  5]  5.0- 6.0 sec  69.0 MBytes   579 Mbits/sec [  4]  6.0- 7.0 sec  18.2 MBytes   153 Mbits/sec [  5]  6.0- 7.0 sec  69.8 MBytes   585 Mbits/sec [  4]  7.0- 8.0 sec  15.6 MBytes   131 Mbits/sec [  5]  7.0- 8.0 sec  70.0 MBytes   587 Mbits/sec [  4]  8.0- 9.0 sec  16.2 MBytes   136 Mbits/sec [  5]  8.0- 9.0 sec  69.6 MBytes   583 Mbits/sec [  4]  9.0-10.0 sec  17.1 MBytes   144 Mbits/sec [  4]  0.0-10.0 sec   170 MBytes   142 Mbits/sec [  5]  9.0-10.0 sec  69.1 MBytes   580 Mbits/sec [  5]  0.0-10.0 sec   703 MBytes   589 Mbits/sec regards, Simon