site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Jan 2, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: The payoff is pretty large. For the 10GbE NIC I do drivers for, we went from sending at ~2Gb/s to ~8Gb/s when using a 1500 byte MTU on a fairly wimpy 1.8GHz single CPU AMD64 when I implemented TSO support in our FreeBSD driver. -Ed _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... Do you have any numbers on the before / after CPU consumption? Doing more while using less power appears to be all the rage these days. Even better is doing the same thing while using a fraction of the power. If through put isn't enough of a motivator, perhaps a little extra battery life... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com