dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

[Ferdinand Goldmann]

Pertti Kosunen wrote:
> Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:
>> 944mbps is a very good value, anyway. What we see in our setup are 
>> throuput rates around 300mbps or below. When testing with tcpspray, 
>> throughput hardly exceeded 13MB/s.
> 
> Increasing MTU should help to get better results, as long all devices in 
> network support jumbo frames (at least on large files). 9k or even 16k 
> might be supported.
> 

Problem is only that the em driver does not support Jumbo frames on the 
82545GM. :-(

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