On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:39:21PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On 3/6/07, Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This small change btw. delivers about ~ 3% extra performance on a very > >slow test system. > > Has this change been tested / benchmarked under VMWare? pcnet32 is > the (default?) virtual device presented by VMWare Workstation, and > that's probably a large fraction of its use in the field these days. > But then Don probably already knows that. :-)
Unless you install vmware tools in which case you use vmxnet instead which of course performs better since it knows it isn't talking to real hardware. I am currently about to try what this patch does to the performance of our system (266MHz Geode SC1200 with 4 pcnet32's). -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
