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4. Performance Tuning
The Network Interface Card (NIC) driver for the SGI 10-Gigabit Ethernet Adapter II
allows performance tuning in the following three major areas:
• “Load Balancing the Receive Activity Among CPUs” on page 20
• “Latency/Throughput Tuning” on page 20
• “NIC Acceleration Features” on page 21
• “Software (SW) Stack Tuning” on page 21
• “Further Tuning with a Sample Script” on page 22
Note: Many of the tuning techniques described in this chapter require the cxgbtool (8),
which can be obtained directly from Chelsio Communications, Inc. See the following
website:
http://www.service/chelsio.com/