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From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Prism54-devel] Re: TxDescriptors -> 1024 default. Please not for every NIC!
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:45:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040520164516.GA9913@irc.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040520163811.GA15832@bougret.hpl.hp.com>

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:38:11AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 	I personally would stick with 100. The IrDA stack runs
> perfectly fine with 15 buffers at 4 Mb/s. If 100 is not enough, I
> think the problem is not the number of buffers, but somewhere else.

 I don't know how much trollish or true is that comment:
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=106258&cid=9049422
but it suggest, that Linux' stack having no BSD like mbuf functionality,
is not perfect for fast transmission. Maybe some network guru
cna comment ?

-- 
Tomasz Torcz       ,,(...) today's high-end is tomorrow's embedded processor.''
zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl                      -- Mitchell Blank on LKML

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-20 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-09  3:14 [e1000 2.6 10/11] TxDescriptors -> 1024 default Feldman, Scott
2003-09-11 19:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 19:45   ` Ben Greear
2003-09-11 19:59     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 20:12     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-11 20:40       ` Ben Greear
2003-09-11 21:07         ` David S. Miller
2003-09-11 21:29           ` Ben Greear
2003-09-11 21:29             ` David S. Miller
2003-09-11 21:47               ` Ricardo C Gonzalez
2003-09-11 22:00                 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 22:15               ` Ben Greear
2003-09-11 23:02                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-11 23:22                   ` Ben Greear
2003-09-11 23:29                     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-12  1:34                     ` jamal
2003-09-12  2:20                       ` Ricardo C Gonzalez
2003-09-12  3:05                         ` jamal
2003-09-13  3:49                       ` David S. Miller
2003-09-13 11:52                         ` Robert Olsson
2003-09-15 12:12                           ` jamal
2003-09-15 13:45                             ` Robert Olsson
2003-09-15 23:15                               ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16  9:28                                 ` Robert Olsson
2003-09-14 19:08                         ` Ricardo C Gonzalez
2003-09-15  2:50                           ` David Brownell
2003-09-15  8:17                             ` David S. Miller
2004-05-15 12:14                           ` TxDescriptors -> 1024 default. Please not for every NIC! Marc Herbert
2004-05-19  9:30                             ` Marc Herbert
2004-05-19 10:27                               ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-05-20 14:11                                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-05-20 16:38                                   ` [Prism54-devel] " Jean Tourrilhes
2004-05-20 16:45                                     ` Tomasz Torcz [this message]
2004-05-20 17:13                                       ` zero copy TX in benchmarks was " Andi Kleen
2004-05-19 11:54                               ` Andi Kleen

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