On 12/7/05, David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regardless of the decision, it's incorrect to point out e1000 > specifically as many other Linux networking drivers do copybreak too > and I've always public advocated for copybreak to be used by drivers > due to the socket buffering issue. Whatever we decide here about > copybreak, we should apply consistently across all drivers and my vote > is on by default with an ethtool switch folks can use to tweak this. > I can even do the tg3 bits :-) > I agree completely. For a simple test to show this, try to flood an interface with small UDP packets. Do this with and without copybreak and look at how many more packets get dropped when copybreak is not used. This was why we added it in the first place.
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