On Tue, 2007-26-06 at 13:57 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:27:28 -0400 > > > Back to the question: Do you recall how this number was arrived at? > > 128 packets will be sent out at GiGe in about 80 microsecs, so from a > > feel-the-wind-direction perspective it seems reasonable. > > I picked it out of a hat.
It is not a bad value for Gige; doubt it will be a good one for 10/100 or even 10GE. But you could say that about the ring sizes too. cheers, jamal - 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