> you'll find here a patch I've made to add the > CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL support to the e1000 driver > (against version 5.2.16). Without CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL, > the system will collapse when you load it at Gigabit speed > with small frames (only a few fps rate). Thanks to > CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL, it can keep a very good rate (200k > fps forwarding small packets in my test system) even with 100% load. Did you try CONFIG_E1000_NAPI? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html