Re: implementing idle-time networking

2000-09-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, i believe there are two things here that you need to consider before you can see any queue build up in ipq: 1. you should generate packets (way) faster than the card is able to handle them; 2. the network card itself might be able to queue multiple packets in the "transmit ring";

Re: implementing idle-time networking

2000-09-19 Thread Mike Smith
Closer inspection revealed that both the ifnet ifqueues as well as the driver transmission chain are always empty upon enqueue/dequeue. Thus, even though my fancy queuing code is executed, it has no effect, since there never are any queues. Can someone shed some light on if this is

implementing idle-time networking

2000-09-18 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, as part of my thesis research, I'm implementing something similar to the POSIX idle-time CPU scheduler for other resource types, one being network I/O. The basic idea is to substitute two-level queues for the standard ones. I'm seeing some unexpected things (explained below), but let me