From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:12:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:12:08 -0500 Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net ([24.147.1.144]:20138 "EHLO chmls06.mediaone.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:11:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3A57D10E.9080205@maniac.ultranet.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 21:14:38 -0500 From: "David C. Davies" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001107 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Andi Kleen , Bill Wendling , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10) In-Reply-To: <20001103202911.A2979@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <200011031937.WAA10753@ms2.inr.ac.ru> <20001103160108.D16644@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu> <3A033C82.114016A0@mandrakesoft.com> <20001104004129.C5173@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <3A0350EC.8B1A3B4D@mandrakesoft.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080100040707010804040708" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --------------080100040707010804040708 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All, Please reply to daviesrallis@mediaone.net rather than this email account. Regards, Dave ------------------------------------ Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> de4x5 is stable, but tends to perform badly under load, mostly because >> it doesn't use rx_copybreak and overflows standard socket buffers with its >> always MTU sized skbuffs. > > > One of the reasons that de4x5 isn't gone already is that I get reports > that de4x5 performs better than the tulip driver for their card. > > Jeff > > --------------080100040707010804040708 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All,

Please reply to daviesrallis@mediaone.net rather than this email account.

Regards,

Dave
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
Andi Kleen wrote:
de4x5 is stable, but tends to perform badly under load, mostly because
it doesn't use rx_copybreak and overflows standard socket buffers with its
always MTU sized skbuffs.

One of the reasons that de4x5 isn't gone already is that I get reports
that de4x5 performs better than the tulip driver for their card.

	Jeff



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