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Re: RFC: NAPI packet weighting patch

To: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RFC: NAPI packet weighting patch
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:53:32 -0700
Cc: "Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@xxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx, hadi@xxxxxxxxxx, buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jdmason@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Venkatesan, Ganesh" <ganesh.venkatesan@xxxxxxxxx>, "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
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I noticed that the tg3 driver copies packets less than a certain
threshold to a new buffer, but e1000 always passes the big buffer up
the stack. Could this be having an impact?

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