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From: Otto Sabart <osabart@redhat.com>
Subject: Performance drop on SFC interface (around 30%)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:23:29 +0200
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Hello netdev,
we see a performance drop (about ~30%) on sfc driver (SFC9020) when
performing netperf TCP maerts test. It seems it started from 4.7-rc0.

Which commit/change could cause this regression? Any hints?

I opened a bugzilla [0] where you can find images with results.

[0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120461

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Ota