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From: Elad Lahav <elad_lahav@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Performance degradration 2.6.25->2.6.26
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:05:28 -0400
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By the way, using the 2.6.25 driver under the 2.6.26 kernel does not fix 
the problem, so changes to the driver code are clearly not the culprit.

> e1000 shortlog between those two kernels shows no real changes that could 
> effect performance besides the irq_sem fix.

Elad

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