From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] sky2: reduce default transmit ring Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090617.185111.238554665.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090617173031.703636683@vyatta.com> <20090617173140.074593860@vyatta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51059 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753021AbZFRBvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:51:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090617173140.074593860@vyatta.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:30:37 -0700 > Reduce the size of the driver transmit ring to reduce latency > and allow qdisc to do better rate control. Also make it > obvious what the minimum transmit ring allowed is and why. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied.