[syslinux] Problem with 90MB Initrd

[Patrick Masotta]

>>> 
 Patrick, the pattern is quite recognizable.  See also "[syslinux]
 EFI & PXE-booting: very slow TFTP performance on a VMWare test setup"
 http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-June/023634.html
 -Gene

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Gene, As I see it there are two completely different TFTP problems here:

The one initially reported by Oscar Roozen lead to this bug report
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2536774

Later I detected a completely different VMware problem (related to IP fragmentation)
that lead to this other bug report:
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2536960

Then; where do you see the quite recognizable pattern w/o a Wireshark capture??? ;-)


BTW if you take a minute and read the first report
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2536774
You'll realize that VMWare TFTP "surprisingly" does not present slow TFTP transfers
when they are driven by MS "bootmgfw.efi"; instead the problem is only shown when
transfers are driven by syslinux.efi; At the moment, despite probably VMware not handling 
the net driver "polling" correctly, I started to wonder if "we" are really handling the EFI Event 
engine correctly when performing TFTP transfers within syslinux.efi

Best,
Patrick