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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:28:24 -0500
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, whitney@math.berkeley.edu,
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Subject: Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
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In-Reply-To: <507C85FA-34A7-11D6-AD8C-000393843900@metaparadigm.com>; from michael@metaparadigm.com on Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:20:26PM +0800
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:20:26PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote:
> What about jumbo frames?  I notice this comment in the driver "disable
> jumbo frames to avoid tx hangs".  I'm getting ~550Mb/sec from a single
> TCP stream and ~700Mb/sec with 2 in parallel. Jumbo frames would
> probably improve this quite a bit.

Jumbo frames work up to RX_BUF_SIZE.  Hint: any mtu you try to specify 
that the driver lets you set should work.

		-ben
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