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(p200300EA8BCFE3006519A58C03FD9CDD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:ea:8bcf:e300:6519:a58c:3fd:9cdd]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id a12sm28398724wro.18.2018.11.20.12.14.26 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:14:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Realtek NIC uses over 1 Watt with no traffic To: Andrew Lunn , Paul Menzel Cc: Realtek linux nic maintainers , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <081beaeb-be22-55b3-2927-fec04e9f714a@molgen.mpg.de> <20181120144556.GC18335@lunn.ch> From: Heiner Kallweit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:14:21 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181120144556.GC18335@lunn.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20.11.2018 15:45, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 09:40:25AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: >> Dear Linux folks, >> >> >> Using Ubuntu 18.10, Linux 4.18.0-11-generic, PowerTOP 2.9 shows, the NIC >> uses 1.77 Watts. A network cable is plugged in, but there is no real traffic >> according to `iftop`. Only an email program is running. >> >> $ lspci -nn -s 3:00.1 >> 03:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. >> RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev >> 12) >> >> Is that a measurement error, or does the NIC really need that much power? > > Hi Paul > > This sounds like Energy Efficient Ethernet, EEE, is not enabled. > > What does ethtool --show-eee ethX say? > > Andrew > The r8169 driver doesn't support the get_eee ethtool_ops callback. For certain chip versions EEE gets enabled in the PHY init, for others not and some don't seem to support EEE at all. Apart from EEE one important factor affecting power consumption is ASPM. This was recently enabled for certain chip versions. Information that would help: whether Wake-on-LAN is enabled ("Wake-on:" line from ethtool output) lspci -vv output for the Realtek NIC Info from powertop about package C states. With ASPM my system reaches 50% PC7 + 50% PC10. dmesg output filtered for "r8169". Primarily relevant is the line with the chip name and XID. Heiner