From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264499AbTLCFDy (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:03:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264501AbTLCFDx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:03:53 -0500 Received: from rth.ninka.net ([216.101.162.244]:11904 "EHLO rth.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264499AbTLCFDx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:03:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:03:37 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Stephen Lee Cc: laforge@netfilter.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Extremely slow network with e1000 & ip_conntrack Message-Id: <20031202210337.5dda502f.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031202204404.9ADD.MUKANSAI@emailplus.org> References: <20031130074532.0105.MUKANSAI@emailplus.org> <20031130155236.GJ26749@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org> <20031202204404.9ADD.MUKANSAI@emailplus.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:44:06 +0900 Stephen Lee 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.