Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:28:24 -0500

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:20:26PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote:
> What about jumbo frames? I notice this comment in the driver "disable
> jumbo frames to avoid tx hangs". I'm getting ~550Mb/sec from a single
> TCP stream and ~700Mb/sec with 2 in parallel. Jumbo frames would
> probably improve this quite a bit.

Jumbo frames work up to RX_BUF_SIZE. Hint: any mtu you try to specify
that the driver lets you set should work.

-ben

-- 
"A man with a bass just walked in,
 and he's putting it down
 on the floor."
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/