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gallatin
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svn:date
V 27
2007-05-21T18:32:27.000000Z
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V 515
Improve mxge receive performance:

- Update to the latest (1.4.18) f/w.  This f/w introduces a new
  receive mode which allows us to use FreeBSD's physically discontinuous
  MJUM9BYTES clusters.

- Switch the driver from chaining MJUMPAGESIZE clusters to using
  MJUM9BYTES clusters to avoid mbuf chaining overheads.  Due to this
  change, people running obsolete f/w images will be limited to an MTU of
  PAGE_SIZE - 16.

- Add (disabled by default) support for Large Receive Offload.

Sponsored by: Myricom, Inc.

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