> I agree, but I want to have a larger buffer to absorb larger picks. For > example, after applying this patch I tested how many times the net queue > is stopped and woken up when running four streams of netperf, udp, small > packets. When using the default 64 tx queue size it happened 500 times. > When I used a 256 tx queue size it happened only 37 times. This makes me > think that we have larger picks that a larger queue size can help > handle.
OK, that makes sense -- although did you see any performance difference? > Also looking for example on Broadcom bnx2 driver on my machine, it uses > a 1000 tx queue len. Isn't that the software queue above the hardware? (That's what txqueuelen in ifconfig is reporting) _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
