Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:45:25 -0700 | From | Ring Fan <> | Subject | Re: local nntp connections much slower in 2.5.73 than in 2.4.x |
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John Covici wrote:
>Hi. I have been noticing an nntp problem in my 2.5.73 kernel. I >have inn 2.3 set up on my machine and I use gnus to read mail and >news. Now what happens is that when gnus starts up it connects to >the server (same box) and gets all the active newsgroups. What I >have noticed is a drastic slowdown in 2.5.73 (or other 7x) than in my >2.4.20 kernel and I was wondering if anyone else has seen this or can >tell me either a workaround or what is going on with this. > Loopback interface has debugging code in current 2.5.x -
Does this patch speed things up?
diff -urN linux-2.5.66/drivers/net/loopback.c linux-2.5.66-faster/drivers/net/lo opback.c --- linux-2.5.66/drivers/net/loopback.c 2003-03-24 14:00:04.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.5.66-faster/drivers/net/loopback.c 2003-04-05 10:15:00.000000000 -0 800 @@ -193,8 +193,8 @@ /* Current netfilter will die with oom linearizing large skbs, * however this will be cured before 2.5.x is done. - */ dev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO; + */ dev->priv = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device_stats), GFP_KERNEL); if (dev->priv == NULL)
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