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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:25:32 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com>
To:        Alex <joovke@joovke.com>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help! Network issue with freebsd + Xen
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101260918450.20212@tiktik.epipe.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D3FDEA3.1070504@joovke.com>
References:  <4D3F94B0.4080704@joovke.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101260649160.20212@tiktik.epipe.com> <4D3FDEA3.1070504@joovke.com>

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Alex wrote:

> Though as far as I know, when a collision is detected, the behavior is for the
> sender to invoke it's backoff algorithm and to wait a set amount of time
> before transmitting again. if this is actually occurring then there would be
> performance degradation.

Yeah, this would be bad if it is actually happening within Xen or
dom0 and not just an issue with a counter. On bare metal this
collision processing would happen within the network card.

> Would you mind adding your feedback on my PR up at freebsd.org just to let the
> "re" maintainer know it's not just me? The PR is 154236. Would Greatly
> appreciate it.

Done.

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Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications
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