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Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10G forwarding performance @Intel
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On 04.07.2012 01:29, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 14:44, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:19:06PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> Just curious ... what's the MTU on your FreeBSD box, and the Linux box?
>>
>> he is (correctly) using min-sized packets, and counting packets not  bps.
In this particular setup - 1500. You're probably meaning type of mbufs 
which are allocated by ixgbe driver?
>
> Yes, I know. That wasn't what I asked.
>
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