From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Torcz Subject: Re: [Prism54-devel] Re: TxDescriptors -> 1024 default. Please not for every NIC! Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:45:16 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040520164516.GA9913@irc.pl> References: <20040519102700.GA16465@ee.oulu.fi> <20040520141111.GR13898@ruslug.rutgers.edu> <20040520163811.GA15832@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040520163811.GA15832@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:38:11AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > I personally would stick with 100. The IrDA stack runs > perfectly fine with 15 buffers at 4 Mb/s. If 100 is not enough, I > think the problem is not the number of buffers, but somewhere else. I don't know how much trollish or true is that comment: http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=106258&cid=9049422 but it suggest, that Linux' stack having no BSD like mbuf functionality, is not perfect for fast transmission. Maybe some network guru cna comment ? -- Tomasz Torcz ,,(...) today's high-end is tomorrow's embedded processor.'' zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl -- Mitchell Blank on LKML