[RHEL4.8 Snapshot1] The receiving performance deteriorates when setting MTU size to 4K or more on the interface that uses the igb driver on x86
Issue
- The receiving performance deteriorates when setting MTU size to 4K or more on the interface that uses the igb driver on x86.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8
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32-bit kernel
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igb driver
- MTU set to 4096 or greater on both host and remote host
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