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Re: The ultimate TOE design

To: John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design
From: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:16:16 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <leonid.grossman@xxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, John Heffner wrote:

> The other (much nicer) solution to case (b) is to just USE A BIGGER MTU.
> 1500 bytes is ridiculously small.  Even with a 9k MTU, the benefits of TOE
> or TSO are nearly vanishing.

Do you have any figures on (large) MTU size vs performance on a current
commidity system?


- James
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James Morris
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