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DateTue, 24 Aug 2004 08:03:41 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P8
* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

> > it has an effect on input queue length. Output queue lengths can be
> > reduced via 'ifconfig eth0 txqueuelen 8'.
> 
> OK.  With both of these set to 4, the largest latency I was able to
> generate by ping flooding was 253 usecs.
> 
> Is there any particular reason one of these parameters is set via a
> sysctl/proc entry, and one by ifconfig?

well, the input packet backlog is global, the output one is local. No
good reason otherwise.

	Ingo
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