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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:27:57 -0700

> That seems rather extraordinarily low - Power7 is supposed to be a
> rather high performance CPU.  The last time I noticed O(3Gbit/s) on
> 10G for bulk transfer was before the advent of LRO/GRO - that was in
> the x86 space though.  Is mapping really that expensive with Power7?

Unfortunately, IOMMU mappings are incredibly expensive.  I see effects
like this on Sparc too.