Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:18:36 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: e1000 performance hack for ppc64 (Power4) |
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> Not really... one retransmit and the TCP header size grows > due to the SACK options.
OK scratch that idea.
> I find it truly bletcherous what you're trying to do here.
I think so too, but its hard to ignore ~100Mbit/sec in performance.
> Why not instead find out if it's possible to have the e1000 > fetch the entire cache line where the first byte of the packet > resides? Even ancient designes like SunHME do that.
Rusty and I were wondering why the e1000 didnt do that exact thing.
Scott: is it possible to enable such a thing?
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