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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: bad TSO performance in 2.6.9-rc2-BK
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:20:50 -0700
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David S. Miller wrote:

> Bright minds think alike.  :-)  We have to keep all the other
> packet counts in sync as well.
> 
> Andi, others, forget my previous hack patch to tcp_clean_rtx_queue()
> and give this more complete patch a try.
> 
> I'm getting really good results here on my tg3<-->tg3 setup using
> this patch.

Dave, were you seeing a significant number of retransmissions
and sacks in your tests?

thanks,
Nivedita