Re: patch for common networking error messages

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:23:09 -0400


Janice M Girouard wrote:
> 2) events that drive load balancing software. Right now if we need to
> throttle the card, we don't send events up to indicate we have reached
> capacity.

Question related to this item specifically :)

Do you want to individually send 4000 - 16000 (or more) TX stop / start
events per second to userspace? :) At some point Heisenburg defeats
low latency :)

If not (and I hope not), perhaps also look into the net stack statistics
already kept (or add more sampling stats if necessary), and instead
trigger events based on sampling those statistics.

Jeff

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