David S. Miller wrote:

> I don't know how wise this tx_queue_len fiddling is.
> 
> With this, if user modifies tx_queue_len himself, on ifdown this configuration
> change is lost if user sets it explicitly to '1'.  See?  In fact you could
> call it corruption :-)
> 
> I think Alexey maybe meant something different, achieving the ends by some other
> means than directly fiddling with tx_queue_len.
> 

I guess he meant something like this, but I still think it encourages
broken configurations in combination with non-work-conserving
schedulers.

Regards,
Patrick