On 5/4/06, Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Herbert Xu wrote:
> Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>So I pushed out an update for Fedora Core 5 users yesterday
>>that moved the kernel from 2.6.16.9 to 2.6.16.13.
>>I've since heard "My network performance is awful", and worse
>>yet, some apps seem broken as in the report below.
>>
>>Anyone have any ideas ?
>
>
> Try reverting the e1000 truesize patch. Although the fix is 100%
> correct, it might have a negative impact on user-space apps with
> particuarly small rcvbuf settings. Prior to the fix, due to the
> incorrect accounting we are essentially enlarging rcvbuf by as much
> as 10 times.
At least one of the reports shows problems with non e1000 NICs, so it's
probably not just the e1000 change.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190620
Ben
Wouldn't it be more likely commit 5d0b6f2bdaf7e016e750cd24164a241512d968a3
as this touches net/ipv4/tcp_output.c and is also in same general area?
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