From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
Cc: davem@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: copybreak and gige network drivers
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:39:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F79958F.7040103@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0309291834330.2166-100000@training.scyld.com
Donald Becker wrote:
> The decision point is pretty much break-even in the range of 150-400
> bytes, and most packets are either smaller or much larger, so just pick
> a likely value. I tried to look at the bin sizes for the skbuff
> allocator, but you'll find that the overhead changes faster than you can
> possibly track.
Okay, will do. Thanks for the excellent explanation.
Chris
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2003-09-29 18:25 copybreak and gige network drivers Chris Friesen
2003-09-29 23:14 ` Donald Becker
2003-09-30 14:39 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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