Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:53:59 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Allow TSO to be disabled for forcedeth driver |
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Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote: > > TSO can cause performance problems in certain environments, and being > able to turn it on or off is helpful for debugging network issues. Most > other network drivers that support TSO allow it to be toggled, so add > this feature to forcedeth. Tested by Harald Dunkel, who reported that > this fixed his network performance issue with VMware. >
(This is regarding http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=408893)
Why does TSO-with-forcedeth make vmware networking slow?
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