[Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

[Jonathan Morton]

On 29 May, 2011, at 8:40 pm, Dave Taht wrote:

> It is mildly early to point at the driver as being the issue - it could be the switch or something else entirely. Would iptables or qos rules show up in sirq?

I doubt it.  I run some pretty old hardware sometimes, and I've never seen sirq so high except for PIO IDE adapters.

The Pentium-MMX with it's VIA Rhine adapter keeps up with 100Mbps transfers without exhibiting those symptoms.

 - Jonathan