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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:39:55 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] slow network performance when using bridged interfaces
	in 2.6.13 compared to 2.6.12.
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: bridge@osdl.org, Josh Burke <kernelbridgeissue@iokui.com>

Since you are using an e100, I would suspect the "CPU cycle saver"
patch that was added in 2.6.13, then removed in one of the stablilty
releases. A fixed version of the patch is in 2.6.14.  Read the
netdev archives for more detail.