> rtk(4) appears to be very reasonably implemented to take advantage of
> some useful ethernet chipset features. I don't know where you get the
> idea that it is a hack designed to benchmark well.

IMHO the 'early TX start' and 'early RX interrupt' are not 'useful
ethernet chipset features'.  They are designed soley to improve
latency at a cost of cpu cycles, this may be appropriate to the
desktop, but are not relevant to servers.

	David

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