Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Advantage of Tulip and AMD is that they perform much better in my experience
> on half duplex Ethernet than other cards because they a modified 
> patented backoff scheme. Without it Linux 2.1+ tends to suffer badly from
> ethernet congestion by colliding with the own acks, probably because it 
> sends too fast.

Is that real problem? If so, some strategic delay loop should do the
trick...
                                                                Pavel
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