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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Re: Bad tg3 performance on S10 netbook
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:07:58 -0800
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Matt Carlson wrote:

>> Thanks,
>> Ben
> 
> Does the following patch fix the problem?

It does seem to fix the rx-miss.  Our application still runs
sub-optimal until we do something that uses lots of CPU, but
at least the NIC doesn't appear to be dropping packets now.

I tested this patch on the standard tg3 in the 2.6.25.20 kernel,
btw.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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