From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262033AbTLDRhj (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:37:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263281AbTLDRhj (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:37:39 -0500 Received: from fmr06.intel.com ([134.134.136.7]:64196 "EHLO caduceus.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262033AbTLDRhh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:37:37 -0500 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 Subject: RE: Extremely slow network with e1000 & ip_conntrack Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:37:19 -0800 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Extremely slow network with e1000 & ip_conntrack Thread-Index: AcO6YzCMZ+cXbiKzShKV2I+NDTwrjwAKe2EA From: "Feldman, Scott" To: "Stephen Lee" Cc: "Harald Welte" , , , "David S. Miller" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Dec 2003 17:37:20.0480 (UTC) FILETIME=[44DA0600:01C3BA8D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Is it not supported by the hardware? Seems TSO could improve > performance a bit since the 1000/MT Desktop is starved for > PCI bandwidth at 32-bit/33MHz. TSO is support on 82540. Turning off TSO is a workaround, but what's behind the dependency of TSO and ip_conntrack? You indicated in an earlier note that having the ip_conntrack module loaded was a factor. Do you have a nic to try with tg3? I believe tg3 has TSO enabled as well (in 2.6.0-test11). -scott