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Subject: Re: em bad performance
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On Wednesday 21 December 2005 17:55, Danny Braniss wrote:

> 	this particular mb, intel sr1435vp2, has 2 ethernets,
> one is an Intel '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller', the other is
> a Marvell (which seems that the driver is around the corner).
>
> the em performance under 6.0-stable is half of any other box i have,
> and a similar mb running linux gives about 1GB, so
>
> 	Q: any ideas what can be wrong?

With or without polling. Seen reports of polling enabled drivers without 
polling enabled are very slow. According to polling(4), em is polling 
capable.
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