Re: NIU - Sun Neptune 10g - Transmit timed out reset (2.6.24)

From: David Miller
Date: Fri May 09 2008 - 18:45:56 EST


From: Matheos Worku <Matheos.Worku@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 15:36:17 -0700

> I have observed TX throughput degradation (and increased CPU
> utilization) occurs with increased # of connections, when CPU count > 4
> CPUs. I don't think it is related to the driver (or HW).

All transmits through a device are fully serialized currently,
it's a known problem and something we plan to fix.
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