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Date:      Fri, 13 May 2005 19:52:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        "Marian Durkovic" <md@bts.sk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Outgoing speed problems in -CURRENT (was: Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP  performace on Intel PRO/1000)
Message-ID:  <3973.172.16.0.199.1116028322.squirrel@172.16.0.1>
In-Reply-To: <20050512072754.GB92476@us.svf.stuba.sk>
References:  <20050505133250.GA73885@us.svf.stuba.sk> <20050506065950.GA1999@us.svf.stuba.sk> <20050507043712.GB28373@xor.obsecurity.org> <1318.172.16.0.199.1115846681.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <1424.172.16.0.199.1115851128.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050512072754.GB92476@us.svf.stuba.sk>

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On Thu, May 12, 2005 3:27 am, Marian Durkovic said:

>> Seems like i am getting half the performance when sending to the fbsd
>> box. Also, enabling jumbo frames does not help, and sometimes even
>> yields slightly slower results.
>
> Yes, that's exactly the problem my patch is addressing - for larger MTU
> sizes the TX FIFO is simply too small.
>
> And the new Intel's driver ver. 2.1.7 for FreeBSD 5.3 has the same bugs.

I just tried your patch, but unfortunately it does not seem to affect my
problem, the speeds are identical. I am still getting half the performance
when sending out. The fact that this also occurs using another machine and
a different card, leads me to belive something is broken in -CURRENT.




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