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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] netif_rx: receive path optimization
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:30:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <424C9621.70606@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <424C8790.6060203@hp.com>

Rick Jones wrote:

> Well, I'm in an email discussion with someone who seems to bump their 
> TCP windows quite large, and disable timestamps...

Ah, an oldie but a goodie :), disabling route inheritance
as a result, bumping up their default rto back to 300ms, just
so many things that could go wrong there...

> BTW what is the real world purpose of having the multiple CPU affinity 
> of NIC interrupts?  I have to admit it seems rather alien to me.  (In 
> the context of no onboard NIC smarts being involved that is)

Featuritis Bloatis ;). It's a marketing requirement :).


thanks,
Nivedita

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-01  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-30 21:28 [PATCH] netif_rx: receive path optimization Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-30 21:57 ` jamal
2005-03-30 22:08   ` jamal
2005-03-30 23:53   ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-31  3:16     ` jamal
2005-03-31 20:04 ` [RFC] " Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-31 21:10   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2005-03-31 21:17     ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-31 21:25       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2005-03-31 21:43       ` Eric Lemoine
2005-03-31 22:02         ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-03-31 21:24     ` Rick Jones
2005-03-31 21:38       ` jamal
2005-03-31 22:42         ` Rick Jones
2005-03-31 23:03           ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-03-31 23:28             ` Rick Jones
2005-04-01  0:10               ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-04-01  0:42                 ` Rick Jones
2005-04-01  0:30               ` Nivedita Singhvi [this message]
2005-03-31 23:36           ` jamal
2005-04-01  0:07             ` Rick Jones
2005-04-01  1:17               ` jamal
2005-04-01 18:22                 ` Rick Jones
2005-04-01 16:40       ` Andi Kleen

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