On > It is not necessarily the most efficient way to generate bulk traffic, > but I think it is a valid test. > > I use non-blocking IO and poll(). It is true that both sides may have > full TX and/or RX buffers, but the code still works fine. I can adjust > my tool to request any speed any either direction, so I will see if > the bi-directionality makes a difference... > > Thanks, > Ben >
You probably are seeing the device layer equivalent of livelock. Perhaps you are even sending yourself a pause frame. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
