Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux | Date | Mon, 04 Dec 2000 07:29:10 +1100 |
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 07:43:01 -0600 (CST), Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> wrote: >On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: >> If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring >> method to query the current capacity of an interface. >Well, ethtool interface supports reporting media selection as well as >[re]setting media setting. I dunno if we could report what capacity >an interface is handling without adding code to hot paths...
You calculate the capacity during ifconfig up or during speed change. That is not on the hot path.
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