(Mistaken didn't reply-all previous time) Hi Dave,
David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2007 02:57:56 AM: > The word "small" is coming up a lot in this discussion, and > I think packet size really has nothing to do with it. Multiple > streams generating packets of any size would benefit; the > key ingredient is a queue length greater than 1. Correct. Re-thinking about this - for larger packets the bandwidth may not improve as it reaches line-speed, but I guess CPU util could reduce (which could reduce in small packet case too). Using "small" was not covering this case. Thanks, - KK > I think the intent is to remove queue lock cycles by taking > the whole list (at least up to the count of free ring buffers) > when the queue is greater than one packet, thus effectively > removing the lock expense for n-1 packets. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
