Bryan Lawver wrote:
I had so much debugging turned on that it was not the "slowing of the traffic" but the "non-coelescencing" that was the remedy. The NIC is a MyriCom NIC and these are easy options to set.
As chance would have it, I've played with some Myricom myri10ge NICs recently, and even disabled large receive offload during some netperf tests :) It is a modprobe option. Going back now to the driver source and the README I see :-)
<excerpt> Troubleshooting =============== Large Receive Offload (LRO) is enabled by default. This will interfere with forwarding TCP traffic. If you plan to forward TCP traffic (using the host with the Myri10GE NIC as a router or bridge), you must disable LRO. To disable LRO, load the myri10ge driver with myri10ge_lro set to 0: # modprobe myri10ge myri10ge_lro=0 Alternatively, you can disable LRO at runtime by disabling receive checksum offloading via ethtool: # ethtool -K eth2 rx off </excerpt> rick jones - 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