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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:37:15 -0400
From:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Subject:   Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.
Message-ID:  <16742.46123.690229.674202@canoe.dclg.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4166AFE0.5060000@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <16742.40802.187425.402461@canoe.dclg.ca> <4166AFE0.5060000@FreeBSD.org>

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>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> writes:

Scott> Interesting results.  One thing to note is that a severe bug in
Scott> the if_em driver was fixed for BETA7.  The symptoms of this bug
Scott> include apparent livelock of the machine during heavy xmit
Scott> load.  You might want to update and re-run your tests.

Sorry.  I should have made it clear that I applied the patches to the
em from the tree by hand.

Dave.

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