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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: NAPI:  dev.c change to net_rx_action algorithm.
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:55:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DCC9535.3050506@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.30.0211082326220.16986-100000@shell.cyberus.ca

jamal wrote:
> 
> The only thing i can think of is that if it was legal to flog people
> youd be on my list. And i would hope you dont enjoy it.
> Why do you like to put band-aids to things?
> Find the real cause of why you may be having problems then cure it;
> putting arbitrary hacks just because you can is rather against
> the basic principles of engineering.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal

I'm looking for the real cause.  The current code does not work
as I want it to.  So, I'm changing things.  I would love to try
out any patch you might feel like contributing.

 From what I can tell, the old code punishes interfaces who are
running slower at any given time.  My change, I believe, will
allow slower interfaces to gather a bit more quota so that when
they are hit with a burst of traffic, they can spend a little
extra time to clear their buffers.

I would also welcome any argument as to why my code is worse
than the existing code.  And theoretical papers be damned,
I see better results with the change below.  Why is that?

Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-09  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-09  4:23 NAPI: dev.c change to net_rx_action algorithm Ben Greear
2002-11-09  4:32 ` jamal
2002-11-09  4:55   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2002-11-09  4:58     ` jamal
2002-11-09  5:30       ` Ben Greear
2002-11-09 14:41         ` jamal

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