Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

[Jarek Poplawski]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:43:52PM +0000, Ben Mansell wrote:
...
> With an unpatched kernel, the splice performance was worse (due to the  
> one packet per-splice issues). With the small patch to fix that, I was  
> getting around 2 Gbps performance, although oddly enough, I could only  
> get 2 Gbps with read()/write() then as well...
>
> I'll try and do some tests on a machine that hopefully doesn't have the  
> bottlenecks (and one that uses different NICs)

I guess you should especially check if SG and checksums are on, and it
could depend on a chip within those NICs as well.

Jarek P. 
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