Re: Extremely slow network with e1000 & ip_conntrack

Jeff Garzik
2003-12-04T20:10:21Z

Stephen Lee wrote:
> I have a 32-bit PCI card with bcm5705 on it, does that support TSO?
> I'll give it a try today.

I'm pretty sure tg3 does not enable TSO support by default.

Regardless, the problem is identified -- when TSO+conntrack is present,
we "TSO" net traffic then "un-TSO" it.

It's simply better to not use TSO at all, for this case.

Jeff