On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 07:34, Robert Olsson wrote:

Nice but I no improvements w. 82546GB @ 133 MHz on 1.6 GHz Opteron it seems.
SMP kernel linux-2.6.9-rc2

Vanilla. 
  801077pps 410Mb/sec (410151424bps) errors: 95596

Patch TXD=4096
  608690pps 311Mb/sec (311649280bps) errors: 0

Thank you Robert for trying it out.

Well those results are counter-intuitive!  We remove Tx interrupts and
Tx descriptor DMA write-backs and get no re-tries, and performance
drops?  The only bus activities left are the DMA of buffers to device
and the register writes to increment tail.  I'm stumped.  I'll need to
get my hands on a faster system.  Maybe there is a bus analyzer under
the tree.  :-)

-scott