NAPI quota and budget

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Olsson
Hello! K. Salah writes: I have a question about the quota per poll in NAPI. Any idea how the quota of 64 packets per poll per NIC was selected? Why 64, not any other number? Is there science behind this number. The number comes from experimentation. The science is thats it's

NAPI quota and budget

2007-02-03 Thread K. Salah
Hello: I am a new subscriber to netdev. Hope my first post is properly done. I have a question about the quota per poll in NAPI. Any idea how the quota of 64 packets per poll per NIC was selected? Why 64, not any other number? Is there science behind this number. And the same goes for the