netdev - Re: [PATCH] Disable TSO for non standard qdiscs

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Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:05:38 +1030
From:	Glen Turner <gdt@....id.au>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable TSO for non standard qdiscs

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 20:34 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> The philosophical problem I have with this suggestion is that I expect
> that the large majority of users will be more happy with disabled TSO
> if they use non standard qdiscs and defaults that do not fit 
> the majority use case are bad.

I wouldn't be so fast to assume that all users need an exact playout
rate, as people seem to do fine with the 8Kbps playout steps in Cisco
IOS.  A nerd-knob which expresses user's preference in the
accuracy/performance trade-off would be nice.

The problem with ethtool is that it's a non-obvious nerd knob.  At
the least the ethtool documentation should be updated to indicate that 
activating TSO effects tc accuracy.

Best wishes, Glen
[a network engineer]

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