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DateTue, 24 Aug 2004 07:41:28 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P8
* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

> >  - reduce netdev_max_backlog to 8 (Mark H Johnson)
> 
> On my system this setting has absolutely no effect on the skb related
> latencies. [...]

it has an effect on input queue length. Output queue lengths can be
reduced via 'ifconfig eth0 txqueuelen 8'.

	Ingo
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