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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: Shmulik Hen <shmulik.hen@intel.com>,
	bond-devel <bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-net <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
	Amir Noam <amir.noam@intel.com>,
	Noam Marom <noam.marom@intel.com>,
	Tsippy Mendelson <tsippy.mendelson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: [RFC][bonding] Improve VLAN support on top of bonding
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:13:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F144466.8010003@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307151054350.5112-100000@sasami.anime.net>

Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
>>I'd consider ignoring the HW accel unless you can prove it actually helps
>>performance to a noticeable degree.  I have never seen results of any benchmarking
>>related to this...
> 
> 
> For gigabit ethernet, it makes a *H*U*G*E* difference.

I'm curious to see numbers.  The VLAN shim is only inserting
a small shim header, at at most shifting the first part of the packet
when sent a pre-built packet.

Maybe the hw-accel turns on tcp checksumming or something too??

> 
> -Dan


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-15 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-15 13:55 [RFC][bonding] Improve VLAN support on top of bonding Shmulik Hen
2003-07-15 17:24 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-15 17:55   ` [Bonding-devel] " Dan Hollis
2003-07-15 18:13     ` Ben Greear [this message]
2003-07-15 18:16       ` Dan Hollis
2003-07-15 18:36         ` Ralph Doncaster
2003-07-15 19:20           ` Dan Hollis
2003-07-15 22:30           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-16 12:33             ` Ralph Doncaster

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