From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:27:53 -0700 (PDT)
> We see a single packet containing 16060 bytes, which seems to be because > of TSO on the sending side (you did your tcpdump on the sender, no?), so > it will actually be broken up into 11 1460-byte regular frames by the > network card, since they started out agreeing on a standard 1460-byte MSS. > So the above is not a jumbo frame, it just kind of looks like one when you > capture it on the sender side. > > And maybe a 32kB window is not big enough when it causes the networking > code to basically just have a single packet outstanding. We fixed a lot of bugs in TSO last year. It would be really great to see numbers with a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
