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Re: bad TSO performance in 2.6.9-rc2-BK

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: bad TSO performance in 2.6.9-rc2-BK
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:23:06 +0200
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> With such small receive buffers, netperf simply can't clear
> the receive queue fast enough when a burst of TSO created
> frames come in.

I increased the receive buffers on the target and the difference
between TSO and non TSO is much less now (only 5MB/s instead of 20MB/s)

Your theory seems to make some sense.

-Andi


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