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From: Benoit <maverick#maverick.eu.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:17:45 +0100

Benoit a écrit :
> Willy Tarreau a écrit :
>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:40:42AM +0100, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
>>
>> ....
>>
>
> I've got no discard whatsoever on all four interfaces however my firmware
> is different (1.9.6) and there is a new release available so i'll
> upgrade and try.
>
> Also i'll try to upgrade the driver to the latest available 1.8.1 but this
> will be more complicated since i need to have it included in the kernel (root on nfs system)
>
> regard

I found something interesting with the latests bnx2 drivers, RX buffers can be way bigger.

Driver 1.6.9:

Ring parameters for eth0:
Pre-set maximums:

    RX:             1020
    RX Mini:        0
    RX Jumbo:       0
    TX:             255

Driver 1.7.4:

Pre-set maximums:

    RX:             1020
    RX Mini:        0
    RX Jumbo:       4080
    TX:             255

Driver 1.8.1c

Pre-set maximums:

    RX:             4080
    RX Mini:        0
    RX Jumbo:       16320
    TX:             255

I have tried up-ing those buffers, i will see what that gave Received on 2008/12/23 10:17

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