On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Ben Greear wrote:
I'd consider ignoring the HW accel unless you can prove it actually helps performance to a noticeable degree. I have never seen results of any benchmarking related to this...
For gigabit ethernet, it makes a *H*U*G*E* difference.
I'm curious to see numbers. The VLAN shim is only inserting a small shim header, at at most shifting the first part of the packet when sent a pre-built packet.
Maybe the hw-accel turns on tcp checksumming or something too??
-Dan
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