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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: NAPI packet weighting patch
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:53:32 -0700
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I noticed that the tg3 driver copies packets less than a certain
threshold to a new buffer, but e1000 always passes the big buffer up
the stack. Could this be having an impact?