From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support. Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:32:45 -0400 Message-ID: <1182983565.5155.12.camel@localhost> References: <1182790051.5184.29.camel@localhost> <20070625.134741.129320846.davem@davemloft.net> <1182864448.5186.34.camel@localhost> <20070626.135756.30187055.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: yi.zhu@intel.com, kaber@trash.net, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.233]:38752 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759790AbXF0Wct (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:32:49 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so323744wxd for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:32:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070626.135756.30187055.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-26-06 at 13:57 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: jamal > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:27:28 -0400 > > > Back to the question: Do you recall how this number was arrived at? > > 128 packets will be sent out at GiGe in about 80 microsecs, so from a > > feel-the-wind-direction perspective it seems reasonable. > > I picked it out of a hat. It is not a bad value for Gige; doubt it will be a good one for 10/100 or even 10GE. But you could say that about the ring sizes too. cheers, jamal