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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:00:08 -0700
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>>Also note something else strange that it is kind of strange that
>>something like UDP which doesnt backoff will send out less
>>packets/second ;->
> 
> 
> Cannot explain that either :)

Perhaps delays in restarting after the intra-stack flow control is 
asserted.  One possible thing to do to try to deal with that a little 
would be to increase SO_SNDBUF in netperf with the -s option.  That at 
least is something I did back in 2.4 days

rick jones