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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: remove send completion interrupts and
 avoid TX queue overrun through packet drop
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:54:02 -0700
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On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 15:15 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Is this the local or remote throughput?
> With UDP_STREAM you are mostly interested in
> remote throughput, local one can be pretty high
> while most packets get dropped. 

This is local throughput. Remote is called recv(netserver) data. With
default wmem/rmem, there are so many recv errors. I haven't tuned the
results yet.

Thanks
Shirley