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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: tsq: restore minimal amount of queueing
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On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 22:59 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote:

> +1: fixes spastic NFS & Samba throughput since 3.12.0 with r8169 and e100e
> for me as well. It's really not just broken/weird Wifi cards that are
> affected by this.

Same remark, it would be nice to pinpoint the problematic driver.

e1000e had a problem last year, fixed in commit 
8edc0e624db3756783233e464879eb2e3b904c13
("e1000e: Change wthresh to 1 to avoid possible Tx stalls")

We can live with the current situation and continue to fill buffers
to work around bugs, or we can try to fix the bugs ;)

Thanks