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Date:      Sat, 7 May 2005 11:42:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        "Marian Durkovic" <md@bts.sk>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: SOLVED: Degraded TCP performace on Intel PRO/1000
Message-ID:  <1482.172.16.0.199.1115480575.squirrel@172.16.0.1>
In-Reply-To: <20050507093510.GA82158@us.svf.stuba.sk>
References:  <20050505133250.GA73885@us.svf.stuba.sk> <20050506065950.GA1999@us.svf.stuba.sk> <20050507043712.GB28373@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050507093510.GA82158@us.svf.stuba.sk>

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On Sat, May 7, 2005 5:35 am, Marian Durkovic said:
>>> To achieve wirespeed performance, the TX FIFO must be large enough to
>>>  accomodate 2 jumbo packets (not just 1 as the driver was assuming).
>>> There was also a typo in the driver, causing the PBA tuning on most
>>> cards to be non-functional.
>>>
>>> Please be sure to use em driver version 1.7.41 or newer, either from
>>> the CVS (branch RELENG_4_11) or from Intel's downloads.
>>
>> Does this also apply to 5.x and above?  If no-one else responds in the
>> next few days, can you please submit the patch in PR so it does not get
>> lost?
>>
>> Kris
>>
>
> All the CVS branches of if_em.c have the same bugs in the packet buffer
> (PBA) code, so yes, the patch applies to all releases.

Please submit this patch, i myself use the em card in a lot of boxes.
CURRENT still has driver version 1.7.35, so looks like we are behind a
bit.

Thanks.



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