serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Donnerstag, 18. November 2004 00:33 schrieb Scott Long:
> Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > Dear best guys,
> >
> > I really love 5.3 in many ways but here're some unbelievable transfer
> > rates, after I went out and bought a pair of Intel GigaBit Ethernet Cards
> > to solve my performance problem (*laugh*):
> >
> > (In short, see *** below)
[...]
> >
> > - overall network performance (regarding large file transfers) is
> > horrible
> >
> > Please, if anybody has the knowledge to dig into these problems, let me
> > know if I can do any tests to help getting ggate and NFS useful in fast
> > 5.3-stable environments.
>
> if_em in 5.3 has a large performance penalty in the common case due to a
> programming error.  I fixed it in 6-CURRENT and 5.3-STABLE.  You might
> want to try updating to the RELENG_5 branch to see if you get better
> results.

The test machines work with RELENG_5 from today.
When have you merged the fixes exactly?

Thanks a lot,

-Harry

>
> Scott
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