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From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:02:15 -0400

> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > We have to keep in mind, however, that the sw queue right now is 1000
> > packets.  I heavily discourage any driver author to try and use any
> > single TX queue of that size.  Which means that just dropping on back
> > pressure might not work so well.
> > 
> > Or it might be perfect and signal TCP to backoff, who knows! :-)
> 
> I can't remember the details anymore, but for 10-GigE, I have encountered
> cases where I was able to significantly increase TCP performance by
> increasing the txqueuelen to 10000, which is the setting I now use for
> any 10-GigE testing.

For some reason this does not surprise me.

We bumped the ethernet default up to 1000 for gigabit.