From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: Socket buffer sizes with autotuning Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:46:28 -0700 Message-ID: <480F75F4.3010408@hp.com> References: <480E8523.4030007@hp.com> <1e41a3230804221917m4af32ed9ice8225c943d3ffa2@mail.gmail.com> <20080422.205945.229828014.davem@davemloft.net> <480F64B2.7060608@hp.com> <1e41a3230804230958s4d7bb997pee2c7cbdd8448391@mail.gmail.com> <480F70C9.7010004@hp.com> <1e41a3230804231041x6fc7cba7pd73447201faf555d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: John Heffner Return-path: Received: from g4t0014.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.17]:36833 "EHLO g4t0014.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752069AbYDWRqb (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:46:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1e41a3230804231041x6fc7cba7pd73447201faf555d@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Autotuning's job is mainly just to grow the buffer sizes to as much > as congestion control needs to do its thing. It seems very, well, trusting in that regard. rick jones