Bad TCP performance with large MTU on 7-stable.

Andrew Snow andrew at modulus.org
Thu May 29 20:47:48 UTC 2008


Arnaud Houdelette wrote:
> I also tried with tso disabled. Same results. Is it related to the re(4) 
> driver ? Or to the TCP stack ?

Having used em driver with 7-RELEASE and 7-STABLE, I can assure you that 
large MTU size (9100) works well and gives 100mb/s transfer rates easily.

So I can only conclude it is releated to the re driver.

- Andrew



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