From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [PATCH] Break 'budget' dependency on netdev_max_backlog. Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:00:59 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3DB61EFB.4020401@candelatech.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" Return-path: To: jamal Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org jamal wrote: > What i recall is 64 was a good number and thats why we had it as default. > I cant remember who changed the value to 16(Robert?), but it does seem to > be a good value as well. If that was the only driver and it had a lot of > packets, it would still get to use all the 300 packets in the budget; it > will just have to do it in 300/16 times .. Is there any way to influence how often the poll loop gets run? I'll have a patch to set the weight via IOCTL soon.... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear