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Message-Id: <E1JnmdQ-0001qO-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:24:04 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: mingo@...e.hu (Ingo Molnar)
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, dada1@...mosbay.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: poor network loopback performance and scalability (was: Re: [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx())
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> # ifconfig lo mtu 1048576
Chiming in late here, but 1048576 can't possibly work with IP
which uses a 16-bit quantity as the length header. In fact a
quick test seems to indicate that an 1048576 mtu doesn't generate
anything bigger than the default 16K mtu.
Cheers,
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