From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: questions on NAPI processing latency and dropped network packets Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:11:13 -0800 Message-ID: <47950A71.5010304@candelatech.com> References: <478654C3.60806@nortel.com> <4794F848.9020402@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Friesen Return-path: Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:43594 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751640AbYAUVLX (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:11:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4794F848.9020402@nortel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chris Friesen wrote: > Is there anything else we can do to minimize the latency of network > packet processing and avoid having to crank the rx ring size up so high? Why is it such a big deal to crank up the rx queue length? Seems like a perfectly normal way to handle bursts like this... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com