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Re: zerocopy results on GigE

To: "Andrew Morton" <morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: zerocopy results on GigE
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:43:56 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Andrew Morton writes:
 > "David S. Miller" wrote:
 > > 
 > > Strange, cpu usage is close to nothing for sendfile cases yet full
 > > bandwidth is not obtained.
 > 
 > Is it possible that the receiver is going into discard,
 > and TCP is backing off?

Or even worse, the Gige cards are emitting flow control frames.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx

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