Re: [PATCH] Allow TSO to be disabled for forcedeth driver

[Andrew Morton]

Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> 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?

Is it specific to the forcedeth driver?
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