From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: Leonid Grossman <leonid.grossman@s2io.com>
Cc: "'Andi Kleen'" <ak@suse.de>,
"'David S. Miller'" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"'John Heffner'" <jheffner@psc.edu>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:18:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4149BCE9.7040501@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409161310.i8GDAnqG005123@guinness.s2io.com>
Leonid Grossman wrote:
> We can dream about benefits of huge MTUs, but the reality is that moving
> beyond 9k MTU is years away. Reasons - mainly infrastructure, plus MTU above
> ~10k may loose checksum protection (granted, this depends whether the errors
> are simple or complex, and also this may not be a showstopper for some
> people).
> Even 9k MTU is very far from being universally accepted, eight years after
> our Alteon spec went out :-).
One other factor is TCP congestion control, and congestion
windows we obey. Most of the time, you just can't send that
much.
thanks,
Nivedita
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-16 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 19:33 The ultimate TOE design Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 20:04 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-15 19:14 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-15 20:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 21:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-15 21:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 21:13 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-15 21:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 21:29 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-15 22:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 23:29 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-24 13:07 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-09-24 13:21 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-24 18:09 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-09-24 19:39 ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-09-16 0:57 ` jamal
2004-09-16 5:25 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-16 9:57 ` jamal
2004-09-16 14:57 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-16 9:29 ` Lincoln Dale
2004-09-16 12:19 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-16 13:33 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-16 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-16 22:37 ` Lincoln Dale
2004-09-17 13:38 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 22:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 21:15 ` Michael Richardson
2004-09-15 20:53 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-16 1:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 21:10 ` David Lang
2004-09-15 23:05 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-15 20:26 ` Neil Horman
2004-09-15 21:03 ` Wes Felter
2004-09-15 21:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 21:35 ` Wes Felter
2004-09-15 21:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 21:25 ` Imran Badr
2004-09-15 21:25 ` Imran Badr
2004-09-16 11:37 ` Neil Horman
2004-09-16 5:51 ` Matt Porter
2004-09-15 21:36 ` Deepak Saxena
2004-09-15 23:03 ` Paul Jakma
2004-09-24 13:11 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-09-15 21:59 ` Tony Lee
2004-09-15 20:11 ` David Stevens
2004-09-15 20:16 ` David Schwartz
2004-09-15 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 20:54 ` Neil Horman
2004-09-15 20:31 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2004-09-15 21:41 ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-09-16 6:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-17 6:46 ` Eric Mudama
2004-09-17 14:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-17 20:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-17 20:36 ` David Lang
2004-09-17 23:20 ` Tony Lee
2004-09-17 23:36 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-22 23:25 ` Eric Mudama
2004-09-15 21:36 ` John Heffner
2004-09-15 21:46 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-16 6:20 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-16 13:10 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-16 16:18 ` Nivedita Singhvi [this message]
2004-09-16 20:34 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-22 20:18 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-23 4:46 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-15 23:16 ` James Morris
2004-09-15 23:37 ` Leonid Grossman
2004-09-15 23:52 ` John Heffner
2004-09-16 1:43 ` James Morris
2004-09-16 9:03 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
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