From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: netif_rx packet dumping
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:49:33 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0ae4d$s60$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20050303135416.0d6e7708@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net
shemminger@osdl.org said:
>> We should eliminate the max backlog thing completely. There is
>> no need for it.
>
> Still need some bound, because if process_backlog is running slower
> than the net; then the queue could grow till memory exhausted from
> skbuff's.
yes. I eliminated netdev_max_backlog long ago in an experiment with a
2.4 kernel, and it became quite easy to consume huge amounts of kernel
memory.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-04 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-03 20:38 netif_rx packet dumping Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-03 20:55 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03 21:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-03 21:18 ` jamal
2005-03-03 21:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-03 21:24 ` jamal
2005-03-03 21:32 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03 21:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-03 22:02 ` John Heffner
2005-03-03 22:26 ` jamal
2005-03-03 23:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-03 23:40 ` jamal
2005-03-03 23:48 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-04 3:45 ` jamal
2005-03-04 8:47 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-07 13:55 ` jamal
2005-03-08 15:56 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-08 22:02 ` jamal
2005-03-22 21:55 ` cliff white
2005-03-03 23:48 ` John Heffner
2005-03-04 1:42 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-03-04 3:10 ` John Heffner
2005-03-04 3:31 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-03-04 19:52 ` Edgar E Iglesias
2005-03-04 19:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-04 21:41 ` Edgar E Iglesias
2005-03-04 19:49 ` Jason Lunz [this message]
2005-03-03 22:01 ` jamal
2005-03-03 21:26 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-03 21:36 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03 21:44 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-03 21:54 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-03 22:04 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03 21:57 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03 22:14 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-08 15:42 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-08 17:00 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-08 18:01 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-08 18:09 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-08 18:18 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-08 18:37 ` Thomas Graf
2005-03-08 18:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2005-03-08 22:16 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-08 18:27 ` Ben Greear
2005-03-09 23:57 ` Thomas Graf
2005-03-10 0:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-10 8:33 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-10 14:08 ` Thomas Graf
2005-03-31 16:33 ` Baruch Even
2005-03-03 22:03 ` jamal
2005-03-03 22:31 ` Baruch Even
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