From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:32:45 -0400
> 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. The thing that's really important is that the value is not so large such that the TX ring can become empty. - 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
