On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It appears that it is getting CPU starved for some reason (note the > > 43%/40% transmitter CPU usage versus the 99%/99% CPU usage for the > > 2.6.12.6 case). > > What happens when you turn off tso in ethtool?
Thanks!!! That did the trick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ethtool -K eth0 tso off [EMAIL PROTECTED] ethtool -k eth0 Offload parameters for eth0: rx-checksumming: on tx-checksumming: on scatter-gather: on tcp segmentation offload: off [EMAIL PROTECTED] ethtool -K eth0 tso off [EMAIL PROTECTED] ethtool -k eth0 Offload parameters for eth0: rx-checksumming: on tx-checksumming: on scatter-gather: on tcp segmentation offload: off chance% nuttcp -w2m 192.168.88.8 6299.0625 MB / 10.01 sec = 5278.6065 Mbps 100 %TX 74 %RX chance% nuttcp -r -w2m 192.168.88.8 6221.3125 MB / 10.01 sec = 5213.2026 Mbps 100 %TX 71 %RX And a full test I just did consistently got over 5 Gbps. -Thanks again -Bill - 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