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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> de4x5 is stable, but tends to perform badly under load, mostly because
> it doesn't use rx_copybreak and overflows standard socket buffers with its
> always MTU sized skbuffs.

One of the reasons that de4x5 isn't gone already is that I get reports
that de4x5 performs better than the tulip driver for their card.

	Jeff


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