On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Philip Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> [...]
> > This patch caused a drop in throughput from 178 Mbits/sec to 135 Mbits/sec
> > on an Intel XScale IXP465.
>
> Which distribution of packet sizes ?
>
> > It seems like there is some confusion about what the align parameter
> > here means. It was originally an offset from an aligned address so that
> > the IP header aligned, and this patch changes it to the alignment of the
> > ethernet header. But align is still set to NET_IP_ALIGN for some chips.
>
> Yes, I should have distinguished both in the first place.
>
> Can you describe which chipset from realtek the board is using (lspci -vxx) ?
>
Francois:
Obviously I have an interest in any change here not breaking the NIC on
my system. So please let me know if/when you'd like me to test drive a
candidate fix that keeps everyone happy...
-Mike
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