On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Francois Romieu wrote:

Philip Craig [off-list ref] :
[...]

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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 ?

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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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