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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: exploit skb->xmit_more to conditionally
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:43:33 +0200
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:17:49 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> Tested with a modified pktgen version, I got a 40% increase of
> throughput.

Pktgen is artificial benchmarking, you know ;-) :-P

If you really must use pktgen for this, you can use an unmodified
pktgen against the qdisc layer by adding a VLAN interface on-top of the
device you want to test.  I blame John, for telling me this ;-)

/me running away
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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
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