netdev - Re: tcp bw in 2.6

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Message-Id: <20071002.143255.57471247.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:32:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lm@...mover.com
Cc:	rick.jones2@...com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	wscott@...mover.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tcp bw in 2.6

From: lm@...mover.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:40:32 -0700

> I doubt it, the same test works fine in one direction and poorly in the other.
> Wouldn't the flow control squelch either way?

HW controls for these things are typically:

1) Generates flow control flames
2) Listens for them

So you can have flow control operational in one direction
and not the other.
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