On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 10:46 -0700, David Ahern wrote: > On 8/22/17 10:44 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Willem wrote this doc in 2013, before we finally went back to 1000. > > > > We should update this doc. > > > And these too: > > $ egrep -r netdev_max_backlog Documentation/networking/ > Documentation/networking//cxgb.txt: sysctl -w > net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000 > Documentation/networking//ixgb.txt:net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 300000
Yes, whoever wrote this had no idea of the implications I guess.