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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:34:42 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=c3=a9?= <royger@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r271946 - in head/sys: dev/oce dev/vmware/vmxnet3 dev/xen/netfront kern net netinet ofed/drivers/net/mlx4 sys
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Hi Adrian,

On 09/15/15 19:13, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I know all of this. What I'm asking is different - what about the
> change(s) that broke/fixed the Xen network performance actually caused
> the change in behaviour? I know things are sensitive to how the mbufs
> are broken up - I'd like to see exactly this.

You need to add statistic counters to the network drivers in question, 
how frequently packets are defragged and/or dropped in the TX path to 
figure that out. Can we continue this discussion elsewhere?

--HPS



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