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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Extremely slow network with e1000 & ip_conntrack
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:03:37 -0800
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On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:44:06 +0900
Stephen Lee <mukansai@emailplus.org> wrote:

> After lots of trial-and-error, I can make the problem disappear by
> backing these 4 files out from 2.5.44 to their 2.5.43 versions.
> 
> net/ipv4/icmp.c
> net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> net/ipv4/raw.c
> net/ipv4/udp.c

Interesting, but not very.  This essentially backs out the whole
ipv4 packet sending engine rewrite we did to support IPSEC and
UDP sendfile support.

Ie. it's a lot of large interrelated changes.  We know now what
introduced the problem, but this hasn't really narrowed it down
much.