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Subject: Re: [BUG,REGRESSION?] 3.11.6+,3.12: GbE iface rate drops to few KB/s
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:31:50 -0800
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On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 18:43 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> - #define MVNETA_TX_DONE_TIMER_PERIOD 10
> + #define MVNETA_TX_DONE_TIMER_PERIOD (1000/HZ)
> 

I suggested this in a prior mail :

#define MVNETA_TX_DONE_TIMER_PERIOD 1

But apparently it was triggering strange crashes...

> This can only have any effect if you run at 250 or 1000 Hz, but not at 100
> of course. It should reduce the time to first IRQ.