On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 11:48 -0700, Rick Jones wrote: > With small packets and the "default" ring size for this NIC/driver > combination, is the BQL large enough that the ring fills before one hits > the BQL?
It depends on how TX completion (NAPI handler) is implemented in the driver. Say how many packets can be dequeued by each invocation. Drivers have a lot of variations there.
