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From: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:50:58 -0700

>         Problem is if it increases rapidly, you may drop packets
> before you notice that the ring is full in the current estimated
> interval.

This is one of many reasons why hardware interrupt mitigation
is really needed for this.