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The next time you have a chance to do high PPS tests, please compile
in KTR and take a schedgraph trace or two.

Read the schedgraph.py source in /usr/src/tools/ for a quick overview.

It'd be nice to have a public record somewhere of this issue
diagnosed. It may have just been some of the really odd edge case
behaviour the intel 10GE NICs did (at least, before scottl and the
netflix team were let at it.)



Adrian