> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 08:39:38PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > > 
> > > on the MVII, even with a stripped to the bare bones 1.5 kernel.  Ethernet
> > > speeds, for example were 33% faster on the 1.3.2 with generic kernel,
> > >
> > This is true. It's even faster than that. Something has happened in the
> > IP stack that makes it much slower on slow machines between 1.3 and 1.5;
> > I posted about this on tech-kern a couple of months ago. I have checked
> > all obvious details like device drivers and at last it was only the IP
> > stack left.
> 
> That was the checksum routine if I recall right. There is a new one needed
> to accomodate IPv6, too, and it wasn't VAX-assemblized back then when you
> asked. Did nobody fix this?
> 
No, no, that was not the problem. It is something else that takes a huge
amount of time in the IP stack.

-- Ragge