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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: bad TSO performance in 2.6.9-rc2-BK
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:15:20 -0700
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:51:17 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> Looks like the e1000 is too fast...

Yes, the e1000 does TSO expansion much faster than the MIPS
cpus on the tg3.  I believe the e1000 implementation is
in the ASIC instead of being implemented with a firmware
runing on a general purpose on-board processor.

In the 5705 and later revisions, the tg3 implements TSO
in the ASIC as well.