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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:55:37 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] dev.c changes.

Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote on 07/20/2007 04:50:37 PM
>> Is there any downside in using batching with smaller queue sizes?
>>     
>
> I think there is, but as yet I don't have any data (and 16 is probably
> higher
> than reqd) to show it. If the queue size is very small (like 4), the extra
> processing to maintain this list may take more cycles than the performance
> gains for sending out few skbs, esp since most xmits will send out 1 skb
> and
> skb batching takes places less often (when tx lock fails or queue gets
> full).
>
> OTOH, there might be a gain to even send out 2 skbs, the problem is in
> doing
> the extra processing before xmit and not at the time of xmit.
>
> Does this sound OK ? If so, I will add the code to implement the TODO for
> tx_queue_len checking too.
>   

I can't really argue about the numbers, but it seems to me that only
devices which *usually* have a sufficient queue length will support
this, and anyone setting the queue length of a gbit device to <16 is
begging for trouble anyway. So it doesn't really seem worth to bloat
the code for handling an insane configuration as long as it doesn't
break.


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