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From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Heads UP - MFC for em coming shortly
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On 10/8/07, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:
> At 04:28 PM 10/5/2007, Jack Vogel wrote:
> >I am preparing to update the em driver to the equivalent of my
> >6.6.6 driver. Just doing some last minute sanity checking, I
> >hope to the checkin before end of day.
>
> Hi,
>          thanks for fixing the compile issue, but I have another
> possible problem.  Do you know if there were any performance
> regressions with this rev? On one firewall / router, I am seeing
> dropped packets.  The PPS rate is only about 30k which should not be that much

So the missed packets are only showing up on em2?

Uh, and that is a management-capable 82573, one that is often a
problem without the eeprom patched, did you do that sometime in
the past, I don't remember who did and who didnt :)

Jack