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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Break 'budget' dependency on netdev_max_backlog.
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:00:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB61EFB.4020401@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.30.0210222340520.24323-100000@shell.cyberus.ca

jamal wrote:

> What i recall is 64 was a good number and thats why we had it as default.
> I cant remember who changed the value to 16(Robert?), but it does seem to
> be a good value as well. If that was the only driver and it had a lot of
> packets, it would still get to use all the 300 packets in the budget; it
> will just have to do it in 300/16 times ..

Is there any way to influence how often the poll loop gets run?

I'll have a patch to set the weight via IOCTL soon....

Thanks,
Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-23  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-21  6:46 [PATCH] Break 'budget' dependency on netdev_max_backlog Ben Greear
2002-10-21 12:51 ` jamal
2002-10-21 16:25   ` Ben Greear
2002-10-23  0:47     ` jamal
2002-10-23  1:06       ` Ben Greear
2002-10-23  1:18         ` jamal
2002-10-23  2:37           ` Ben Greear
2002-10-23  3:21             ` jamal
2002-10-23  3:43               ` Ben Greear
2002-10-23  3:44                 ` jamal
2002-10-23  4:00                   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2002-10-23  3:58                     ` jamal

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