Hello, I have encountered a very low download speed using the e1000e driver for wired ethernet connection via an internal I219-V network card on linux kernel 5.15.72. However, on kernel 5.15.107, the system stops loading altogether. On the latest 6.1.27 kernel also has a slow download speed.
Created attachment 304252 [details] lspci
Created attachment 304253 [details] dmesg bug trace
Created attachment 304254 [details] patch This patch solves the problem. Is it possible to add it to the upstream?
Patches to network drivers go through normal kernel process. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html Use the script get_maintainer to cause the patch to get to the right reviewers. $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> (supporter:INTEL ETHERNET DRIVERS) Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> (supporter:INTEL ETHERNET DRIVERS) "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS) Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS) Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS) Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS) intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org (moderated list:INTEL ETHERNET DRIVERS) netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
The problem was solved by updating the bios firmware. $ diff lspci_nnk.txt lspci_nnk_new_bios.txt 47c47 < 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (10) I219-V [8086:0d4f] (rev 01) --- > 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0dc6] (rev > 01)