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Re: Intel and TOE in the news

To: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Intel and TOE in the news
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 21 Feb 2005 10:50:51 -0500
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On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 10:38, Robert Olsson wrote:

>  Yes when queue length/batch increases you're risking to load the L2 
>  twice for the same skb. Which is the most expensive operation.... 

You are probably onto something here. I have to rerun with varying batch
sizes to see if this is true (although i did i think try with even 2 and
still saw performance degradation).

I will be revisiting these patches in about a month.

cheers,
jamal


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