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Message-ID: <1328090989.17444.31.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:09:49 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] net: pad skb data and shinfo as a whole rather
 than individually

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 10:02 +0000, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 01 février 2012 à 09:39 +0000, Ian Campbell a écrit :
> 
> > I'll investigate the sending side. The sender is running a 2.6.32 distro
> > kernel. Maybe I need to tweak it somewhat.
> 
> Thats strange, even a very old kernel is able to sustain Gigabit line
> rate with pktgen. Maybe a problem with a switch and ethernet pauses ?

Tanks, that was something I was going to investigate. These machines are
in our lab so I need to figure out if they are even directly attached to
the same switch etc.

Ian.

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