From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow TSO to be disabled for forcedeth driver
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:53:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060601125359.10ca1f2b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447F3FB8.2010003@vmware.com>
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
>
> TSO can cause performance problems in certain environments, and being
> able to turn it on or off is helpful for debugging network issues. Most
> other network drivers that support TSO allow it to be toggled, so add
> this feature to forcedeth. Tested by Harald Dunkel, who reported that
> this fixed his network performance issue with VMware.
>
(This is regarding
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=408893)
Why does TSO-with-forcedeth make vmware networking slow?
Is it specific to the forcedeth driver?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-01 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-01 19:27 Zachary Amsden
2006-06-01 19:53 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-01 20:07 ` Zachary Amsden
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[not found] ` <20060601142909.369cf12f.akpm@osdl.org>
[not found] ` <447F6E13.8030904@vmware.com>
[not found] ` <447F472E.5060808@nvidia.com>
2006-06-02 5:49 ` Zachary Amsden
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